Anthrax — Worldwide/Unknown
Health officials of the [Jharkhand] state chapter of Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) has not ruled out an outbreak of anthrax in the state, despite medical reports of 2 persons from Simdega, who died on [8 May 2015], showing negative results.
IDSP’s state director Dr Ramesh Prasad told TOI on Tuesday [19 Mary 2015] that anthrax bacilli (_Bacillus anthracis_) are found naturally in soil and can remain dormant for more than 50 years. “They (the bacilli) surface during monsoon
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