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Of Climate Change, Permafrost, and… World War III?
An anthrax vaccination campaign for deer has resumed in Russia [Image: AFP/Russian Emergency Ministry] I know that title is crazy, but hear me out. Over the past several weeks my inbox has featured ProMED reports of an anthrax outbreak in Siberia, and the story has been growing increasingly curious. The source of the human cases has been presumptively identified as an infected reindeer… that died roughly 80 years ago. That’s odd, even as disease outbreak stories go. The r