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Around the Bloc: ‘Zombie’ Anthrax Threatening Remote Siberian Peninsula
Around the Bloc: ‘Zombie’ Anthrax Threatening Remote Siberian Peninsula

Author(s): TOL TOL
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Environmental Geography, Sociology
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Russia; Siberia; Yamal; anthrax; permafrost; climate change; infectious diseases

Summary/Abstract: Experts believe rising temperatures in the Arctic Circle caused permafrost to thaw and release infectious anthrax spores from a diseased reindeer carcass.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 08/09
  • Page Range: 25-26
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English