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Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change sickens dozens in Arctic Circle
2016-08-01 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A 12-year-old boy in the far north of Russia has died in an outbreak of anthrax that experts believe was triggered when unusually warm weather caused the release of the bacteria. The boy was one of 72 nomadic herders, including 41 children, hospitalised in the town of Salekhard in the Arctic Circle, after reindeer began dying en masse from anthrax. Five adults and two other children have been diagnosed with the disease, which is known as Siberian plague in Russian and was last seen in the...
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