21.   People who handle hides or carcasses of infected animals occasionally catch the disease through the skin, in a form known as cutaneous anthrax.

22.   Seven people in New York City have or are suspected to have cutaneous anthrax.

23.   Similarly, cutaneous anthrax in the ABC child was initially treated as an infected spider bite until the mother pushed for more testing.

24.   The American vaccine has protected people who handle goat and sheep wool from cutaneous anthrax, the usually nonlethal form of the disease that attacks the skin.

25.   The child was infected with what is known as cutaneous anthrax.

26.   The specimen was analyzed and he and his co-workers found evidence of cutaneous anthrax.

27.   The single case of cutaneous anthrax to have been identified here at that point had been treated for two weeks and the patient was doing well.

28.   There have been two U.S. cases of cutaneous anthrax this year, in ranch workers in Texas, and one last year in North Dakota.

29.   They warned that cutaneous anthrax can quickly turn into a dangerous illness, and that doctors must consider it when they see unusual progressive skin inflammations.

30.   This was during all the news about cutaneous anthrax, so Wolff lost no time examining the woman, whose diagnosis turned out to be much more pedestrian.