Anthrax — France
This is the 10th household spotted in the Hautes-Alpes. Health services, state services and farmers are puzzled, ‘it is a head-breaker!’. Unlike “classic” epizootics, the disease comes from soils. “This is the place that is contaminated and it re-contaminates the animals. When a beast is found dead, we disinfect it, we treat [the soil] where we found it, but how do we know where exactly the animal has been eating and how far it reached?” explains René Degioanni. Indeed, anthrax is caused by
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