10 of The Worst Infectious Diseases in The World

This bacterial infection is fatal in almost all its forms. Anthrax has three ways to infect people and this is crucial to how the disease would progress. The first and deadliest way is inhalation, the 2nd is ingestion (often through infected meat), and the 3rd is spreading through open skin. Symptoms vary from one way to another.

Anthrax is a rare disease. In the last several years, only two cases have been reported in the US and UK. One of the terrifying things about anthrax is that is can infect a person and continue existing as dormant spores which are able to survive for a hundred years.