Anthrax — Russia
Abstract
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A recent outbreak of anthrax disease, severely affecting reindeer herds in Siberia, has been reportedly associated with the presence of infected carcasses or spores released from the active layer over permafrost, which is thawing and thickening at increasing rates, thus underlying the re-emerging nature of this pathogen in the Arctic region because of warming temperatures. Anthrax is a global zoonotic and epizootic disease, with a high case fatality ratio in infected
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