Journal Articles
This paper presents the care given to treat the wounds of a male patient who required emergency surgery to debride devitalised tissue after injecting heroin intravenously contaminated with anthrax. It is thought by Dr Colin Ramsay that contaminated heroin or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the drug may be responsible for anthrax infections (Ramsay, 2010).
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