Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Anthrax spreads from reindeer to humans in an outbreak at ‘the end of the world’

Anthrax spreads from reindeer to humans in an outbreak at 'the end of the world'

The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is not a place that gets much media coverage. This sub-division of Siberia — made up mostly of flat, lake-pocked tundra — is the size of California, Texas, Montana and both Dakotas combined, with tens of thousands of square miles to spare. The nomadic people of the region call themselves the Nenets, and they […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/08/02/anthrax-spreads-from-reindeer-to-humans-in-an-outbreak-at-the-end-of-the-world/

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