What is worse Ebola or anthrax?

Answer 1

Many people (probably a majority) believe Ebola is the deadliest virus. To be completely honest, I can understand why. For many years Ebola has killed millions of people, however, scientist have contained it and are still arguing if they shall destroy the virus, or keep it for medical research. Yet...anthrax is still a disease that can be caught and spreaded. I believe anthrax is the worst of all communicable diseases, especially anthrax beta, which is used for biochemical warfare. The natural anthrax however, is no force to reckon with.

Anthrax is a very easy virus to spread, especially through cattle or other farm animals. When it first enters the body, the virus' symptoms are very similar to that of a cold, soar throat, fever, coughing, and vomiting. If these symptoms are not treated they become much worse. Coughing can become severe, such as coughing blood, fever can rapidly increase to 105 degrees, and the skin starts to boil, melt, and even fall off. The high grade fever gave anthrax the nickname the Red Death.

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Note: the person who wrote the above is a moron. Ebola has not killed "millions" - it has killed around abouts two-thousand since it was discovered in 1976. "Scientists" have NOT "contained" it. New outbreaks occur periodically in sub-Saharan Africa all the time, as the virus is transmitted from animal contact there. As of 2014 there is a large-scale outbreak of the virus going on in West Africa - at the time I'm writing this. But usually it pops up in sparsely-populated, remote areas. If it got into a major metropolis, it would be horrifying.

The author made up a lot of that crap about Anthrax too, which is relatively treatable these days. Still bad, but certainly not in the same realm as Ebola, which can have mortality rates over 90%. Anthrax is a bacteria though, not a virus. They're apples and Oranges.

Cutaneous Anthrax does not cause the skin to "boil, melt, or fall off", as the idiot above suggests. No. It causes a painless rash. The author is just making things up.

Anthrax has never been referred to as "the red death".

There is no such thing as "anthrax beta". The author is a filthy liar. The only difference in 'weaponized' Anthrax is that the spores are milled to be small enough to distribute through the air. The bug itself is unchanged.

This is why the internet is awful - uninformed fools get to spew their half-formed, promulgated nonsense as if it were gospel truth, with no checks or balances, and in so doing they spread their ignorant misconceptions and outright lies.

Answer 2

I thing no.Ebola it is transmitted from blood of infected person or with any secretions of the infected person.Yersian pestis it is the agent causative of bubonioc plague and can be wildly spreed thought air.