Anthrax takes the life of child in Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1P5YJ)
A 12-year-old boy is the first fatality in the anthrax outbreak that recently struck the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia, Russia, according to a Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region government news release (computer translated). The child died over the weekend from gastrointestinal anthrax, one of the three forms of the serious bacterial infection. In addition, eight other people have ["]