Sentences with phrase «died of anthrax»

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.

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Dudley's latest research suggests that the hippos» could owe their unique susceptibility to anthrax die - offs to their practice of eating meat that carries the infection — including the bodies of other dead hippos.

Back in 2001, Leendertz and his colleagues thought the chimps had died of the familiar form of anthrax, caused by B. anthracis.

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.

Don't be deceived by its tiny stature and minuscule lifespan; this cell can capture bubonic plague in a web of its own DNA, spew out enzymes to digest anthrax and die in a kamikaze blaze of microbe - massacring glory.

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.