1.   Keiko suffers from skin lesions, malnutrition and a weak immune system, biologists say.

2.   One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum.

3.   Inconsistently there are signs of respiratory embarrassment, skin lesions and lameness.

4.   These larvae do not develop, but the skin lesions usually persist for weeks.

5.   Another clue could be a co-worker with a skin lesion that is being investigated as an anthrax infection, though test results are pending.

6.   Anthrax also is occasionally seen in humans who handle infected animals, but usually it is a cutaneous form, in which anthrax enters through a skin lesion.

7.   -- Using bandages or simple wraps to securely cover scratches, cuts and weeping skin lesions.

8.   But Fried and the health department were perplexed because anthrax did not grow on the culture taken from the skin lesion.

9.   Chickenpox is a virus spread through the air and by direct contact with skin lesions.

10.   Doctors are now expected to consider anthrax as a possible cause for the thousands of skin lesions and flu-like symptoms they encounter every day.