Division Clinical Criteria

Any person with at least one of the following clinical forms:

• Cutaneous anthrax

  At least one the following two:

  • Papular or vesicular lesion;

  • Depressed black eschar with surrounding oedema.

• Gastrointestinal anthrax

  • Fever or feverishness;

  AND at least one of the following two:

  • Severe abdominal pain;

  • Diarrhoea.

• Inhalational anthrax

  • Fever or feverishness;

  AND at least one of the following two:

  • Acute respiratory distress;

  • Radiological evidence of mediastinal widening.

• Meningeal/meningoencephalitic anthrax

  • Fever;

  AND at least one of the following three:

  • Convulsions;

  • Loss of consciousness;

  • Meningeal signs.

• Anthrax septicaemia