date:Mar 20, 2013
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Professor Rood said that the current situation is quite different from the systemic form of the disease that was an issue during the anthrax in the mail problems in the US some years ago. This inhalation form of anthrax is much more dangerous and quite different to the situation here.
Outbreaks of anthrax are rare but not uncommon, according to Professor Rood, because the disease creates a spore form of the bacterium, which can survive in soil for a long time. So you can have a