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Scientists warn anthrax just one threat as Russian permafrost melts

2016-08-11 09:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A recent anthrax outbreak in the far north of Russia left a child dead, 23 people infected and the government scrambling to deploy hundreds of rescue workers and soldiers to stop any further spread. The source, scientists say, seems likely to have been the long-buried corpses of reindeers on Yamal peninsula uncovered as Russia's permafrost melts -- and then been passed on to grazing herds. The fear now is that this is not a freak incident and that other diseases -- some dating back to the Ice...

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