13 July 2015 (23:29 UTC-07 Tango 01, 12 July 2015)/22 Tir 1394/26 Ramadan 1436/28 Gui-Wie 4713
“One thing we want to rule out would be anthrax.”-Marty Zaluski, Montana Department of Livestock
Health administrators in the U.S. state of Montana are now concerned that the mystery deaths of dozens of bison on Native American reservations could be caused by anthrax, after the Canadian province of Saskatchewan confirmed that anthrax is killing bison in the Great White North.
Local news reports say more than one dozen bison on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation died suddenly around the 4th of July. The tribe was given the bison in 2013, after they were cleared of possible brucellosis infection. In 2008, 3-hundred commercially raised bison died in Montana because of anthrax.
At the end of 2014, the South Dakota Animal Industry Board confirmed that bison in that state were being killed by anthrax. The deaths began in July 2014 and seemed to involve only unvaccinated bison. North Dakota and Texas also reported livestock infected with Bacillus anthracis in 2014.
In Republic of Korea (RoK) the Seoul-Washington Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Joint Committee is now overseeing a Joint Working Group (JWG) investigation into why FedEx delivered live weaponized anthrax to the U.S. Forces Korea Osan air base, back in April.
This sounds more like a cover up operation because the SOFA committee is comprised of 20 smaller sub-committees. And the JWG itself will be made up of representatives from defense, foreign, health, agriculture and food ministries, microbiologists, plus private attorneys.
U.S. Forces Korea claims they destroyed the anthrax shipment delivered to Osan.
India is hard hit by an anthrax outbreak that is killing both livestock and humans.
In Koraput district at least six people have died and 15 are confirmed infected with anthrax (up to 30 people showing sings of infection) after eating beef infected with anthrax, back in June.
In Simdega district, a 23 years old woman was admitted to the Simdega sadar hospital back in June. She tested positive for anthrax. However another person, who died and was suspected of being infected with anthrax, tested negative. Health administrators said at least 19 people were infected in the district’s Thetaitangar block.
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