Anthrax Outbreak in Siberia

A 12-year-old boy evacuated from an anthrax epidemic zone in Russia has died in hospital while eight other people have been diagnosed with the disease. The infection has resurfaced in western Siberia 75 years after the previous outbreak.

The child died in hospital in the city of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Area, where quarantine over the anthrax outbreak was declared last week. The boy was among several dozen indigenous people evacuated from the contaminated area.

“We are 90 percent sure that he died from anthrax. He had the intestinal form of the disease, which is harder to diagnose,” the office of Yamal Governor Dmitry Kobylkin told TASS.

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The ongoing anthrax outbreak is the first reported in Yamal in over seven decades. It is believed to have been triggered by a heatwave affecting the usually cold region, which may have unearthed the carcass of an animal killed by the disease.

Neeeext...

We've seen the movie

Anthrax is everywhere, you have some on your feet right now. It's just when the levels get too high that it becomes a problem.

Just like the e coli in your gut right now.

I guess you can't read. There's an outbreak. People dying...