CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin May 28, 2015 18:29:00
Gastrointestinal anthrax you get from eating the actual agent. the one we're most concerned about is what we call the inhalational anthrax, where somebody breathes it and sits in their lungs. should they become symptomatic with this illness, it really in essence produces a huge challenge and people begin fighting for their lives. if we can put people on antibiotics right after they're exposed, typically we mitigate or we cease the risk meaning the individual usually will take a regiment of antibiotics and live a normal healthy life with little to no risk. >> so given everything you just told m...