Siberian Child Dies After Climate Change Thaws an Anthrax-Infected Reindeer

[dixiegrrrrl]

A 12-year-old boy in the far north of Russia has died in an outbreak of anthrax that experts believe was triggered when unusually warm weather caused the release of the bacteria.

The boy was one of 72 nomadic herders, including 41 children, hospitalized in the town of Salekhard in the Arctic Circle, after reindeer began dying en masse from anthrax.

Five adults and two other children have been diagnosed with the disease, which is known as “Siberian plague” in Russian and was last seen in the region in 1941. More than 2,300 reindeer have died, and at least 63 people have been evacuated from a quarantine area around the site of the outbreak. “We literally fought for the life of each person, but the infection showed its cunning,” the Yamal governor, Dmitry Kobylkin, told the Russia-based Interfax news agency. “It returned after 75 years and took the life of a child.”

For the past month, the region has been experiencing abnormally high temperatures that have reached 95° Fahrenheit.
Anthrax spores can survive in frozen human and animal remains for hundreds of years, waiting to be released by a thaw, according to Alexei Kokorin, head of WWF Russia’s climate and energy programme. “Such anomalous heat is rare for Yamal, and that’s probably a manifestation of climate change,” he said.

http://www.wired.com/2016/08/child-dead-climate-change-thawed-anthrax-infected-reindeer/?mbid=social_fb

The thawing is also exposing cemetary remains, cause the deceased were buring in permafrost, not the steel hard ice below that.

[MynameisBlarney]

1. Expect more cases like this around the world.

This is only the beginning.

[malaise]

2. Lots more diseases to follow

if we don't stop heating up the planet

[Angry Dragon]

3. The rapture is beginning

[a la izquierda]

4. Awesome

[NickB79]

5. Just wait until the smallpox and Spanish flu are released

Then shit's gonna get REALLY real, REALLY fast!