A popular myth about chiggers is that they burrow into the skin and remain there, but this is incorrect. When the chigger bites, it inserts its feeding structures and mouth parts into the skin. They inject enzymes into the host skin that destroy the host tissue.
Symptoms and Complications. Inhaled anthrax is by far the most dangerous form of infection, but also the rarest. The first symptoms resemble the flu and include fever, sore chest, malaise, fatigue and dry cough. The first signs of the disease can occur within 48 hours after inhalation of spores of the bacteria.
The first symptom of cutaneous anthrax is a small sore that develops into a blister, and then into a skin ulcer with a black center. Symptoms of gastrointestinal anthrax include nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal distress, diarrhea, and fever.here are 3 forms of anthrax: cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and inhalation. Humans acquire unintentional anthrax infections by handling infected animal products such as wool or hides, or by eating undercooked meat or dairy products from infected animals.