Sentences with phrase «anthrax outbreaks»

Around the turn of the 20th century, herders in the Russian North endured frequent anthrax outbreaks that killed 1.5 million reindeer, two members of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported in a paper published in 2011.

But the Russian Academy of Sciences researchers recommended vaccinating Siberian livestock and indefinitely monitoring sites where people have died of anthrax outbreaks in the past.

Keim's study should allow scientists to tell whether any future anthrax outbreak came from a leftover Soviet weapon or some other source, Grunow says.

In 1988, Matthew Meselson, a biochemist from Harvard and a prominent campaigner against biological weapons, arranged for Soviet officials to give a lecture tour in the US to present their explanation of how the anthrax outbreak could have been caused by contaminated meat.

The anthrax currently infecting reindeer and people in western Siberia likely came from the carcass of a reindeer that died in an anthrax outbreak 75 years ago and has been frozen ever since — until an unusually warm summer thawed permafrost across the region this year, according to local officials.

But as with this week's anthrax outbreak, if we continue to lock in future warming, we won't be able to say we weren't warned of the consequences.

To learn more about how the anthrax outbreak itself may have begun, I spoke with Vladimir Romanovsky, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska — Fairbanks who has studied Arctic microbes and is one of the world's foremost experts on Siberian permafrost.

The ongoing anthrax outbreak in Siberia is offering us a preview: What was once considered a future theoretical possibility — a re-animated deadly bacterium emerging from the permafrost — is now a reality.

Last month, parts of Siberia near where the anthrax outbreak is occurring were as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal, averaged over the entire month.

Russia has sent troops trained for biological warfare to help establish a quarantine in what's become the first anthrax outbreak in the region since 1941.

Still, Holmes is hesitant to link the anthrax outbreak to warming temperatures.

Not exact matches

1850s German microbiologist Robert Koch connects a bacterium to a specific disease — bacillus anthracis to the outbreak of anthrax in cattle — and figures out how to grow bacteria in agar cultures in a lab.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

At least 66 people lost their lives, making it the deadliest human outbreak of inhalation anthrax ever.

An outbreak of anthrax which killed 68 people in the Russian town of Sverdlovsk in 1979 was almost certainly caused by a release of the deadly bacteria from a military research laboratory, pathologists revealed this week.

There are, however, ways to protect both livestock and humans from an anthrax infection, and the current outbreak is likely to end quickly, said George Stewart, a medical bacteriologist at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.

An outbreak of anthrax that has killed more than 2,000 reindeer and sickened 13 people in Siberia has been linked to 75 - year - old anthrax spores released by melting permafrost.

Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →

Trauma surgeon Grace Samuels is deployed to Afghanistan, helping soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries... But a deadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe

1993 — Dr. Martin Hugh - Jones, professor, was part of an American and Russian team of scientists that solved the mystery of a deadly outbreak of anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Siberia.

In July, a rare outbreak of anthrax even emerged in the Yamal Peninsula after hot weather melted permafrost and exposed the carcass of a reindeer.

Outbreaks of zombie anthrax, massive methane blowouts, that sort of thing.

It can also release long - buried microbes, as in a 2016 case when a cache of buried reindeer carcasses thawed and caused an outbreak of anthrax.

In addition, more than 2,300 reindeer have died in the outbreak, believed to have been caused by a heat wave that melted permafrost, which in turn exposed the carcass of an anthrax - infected reindeer to the 12 - year - old boy.