MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

The worker of a stockbreeding farm presented to the hospital with acute disease and died soon of intoxication. An autopsy revealed the enlarged, flaccid spleen, which had a dark-cherry colouring of its cut surface. The scrape of the spleen’s pulp was plentiful. Arachnoids of the brain’s fornix and base were edematous, impregnated by blood, had a dark red colouring ("cardinal’s hat"). Microscopical investigation found the serous-hemerrhagic inflammation of brain’s membranes and tissues with destruction of fine vessels walls. Diagnose a disease.