1. Because she had been taking the antibiotic for several days before anthrax was formally diagnosed, she is said to be doing well and is expected to recover fully. 2. Alarmingly, a hospital in Maryland failed to correctly diagnose inhalational anthrax in a postal worker who returned a day later and died within hours. 3. Even before he diagnosed anthrax in Robert Stevens last week, Dr. Larry Bush had already hit the trifecta of infectious diseases. 4. He went to an emergency room where anthrax was diagnosed, but he died at the hospital. 5. Medical experts also misjudged the difficulty doctors would have in diagnosing inhalation anthrax, assuming that a sophisticated surveillance system was needed to detect an attack. 6. The specimens have also helped the agency verify that the blood test that it used to diagnose anthrax was reliable. 7. This is more to reduce the length of your bout with the flu than to diagnose anthrax, but early diagnosis and treatment can help you relax. 8. While an infectious disease specialist might be expected to diagnose anthrax, another doctor without the training might not have searched as deeply. 9. Yet the doctor who had just diagnosed inhalation anthrax in Stevens had a very different view. 10. He was hospitalized last week, but the anthrax was diagnosed by a medical examination only after his death. |