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anthrax  

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  • Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) gets its name from the Greek word for coal (anthrakis) due to the black skin lesions the disease causes. Anthrax has appeared throughout history; Virgil describes it among domesticated wild animals in his Georgics (29 b.c.e.). [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Anthrax]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MM0PPPCR-3

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