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London man dies from anthrax

03/11/2008

A craftsman from London has died from inhaling anthrax after using animal skins to make drums.Fernando Gomez died in hospital about a week after becoming ill.Anthrax is a disease caused by the organism bacillus anthracis. It mostly affects hoofed animals, which become infected after ingesting dormant forms of the bacteria—the spores—in soil. The...

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