Russian officials blame thawed reindeer carcass in anthrax outbreak

Thirteen people have been hospitalized amid an outbreak of anthrax in western Siberia, the governor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region reported Thursday. Experts with the Russian Ministry of Agriculture believe the cause of infection is the thawing of the frozen carcass of a reindeer that died 75 years ago. < div class="feedflare" > < a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?a=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:yIl2AUoC8zA" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?a=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:7Q72WNTAKBA" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?a=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:V_sGLiPBpWU" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?i=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?a=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:qj6IDK7rITs" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?a=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_health?i=pycKGDMd0RI:COEY7UUoiuM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0" > < /img > < /a > < /div > < img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_health/~4/pycKGDMd0RI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ >

Source: CNN.com - Health - July 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news