Anthrax — India
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Multiple news articles [see links above] on [Mon 12 July 2021], reported that Anthrax has claimed the life of a wild elephant in a reserve forest area near Anaikatti in Coimbatore district, the Forest Department said on [Mon 12 July 2021]. The blood smear samples collected from the carcass had the presence of _Bacillus anthracis_, the bacterium that causes anthrax, senior officials said. With the test confirming the death by anthrax, the Forest and Animal Husbandry
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