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On the pilot episode of Viral Load Brett and Andy discuss Siberia, Anthrax, Climate change and how when all those things collide it's bad news for all of us.

REFERENCES

National Research Council. (2011). Review of the scientific approaches used during the FBI's investigation of the 2001 anthrax letters. National Academies Press.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/488400947/anthrax-outbreak-in-russia-thought-to-be-result-of-thawing-permafrost

Revich, B. A., & Podolnaya, M. A. (2011). Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia. Global health action, 4(1), 8482.

Revich, B. A., & Podolnaya, M. A. (2011). Thawing of permafrost may disturb historic cattle burial grounds in East Siberia. Global health action, 4(1), 8482.

Anthrax in Siberia

“Anthrax Outbreak In Russia Thought To Be Result Of Thawing Permafrost” - NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/03/488400947/anthrax-outbreak-in-russia-thought-to-be-result-of-thawing-permafrost

“All hell breaks loose as the tundra thaws” - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/20/hell-breaks-loose-tundra-thaws-weatherwatch

“Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change kills boy in Arctic Circle” - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/anthrax-outbreak-climate-change-arctic-circle-russia

“Russia anthrax outbreak affects dozens in north Siberia” - BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36951542

“Anthrax Outbreak in Siberia as a Harbinger of the Unfreezing of Pathogens”

http://www.diseasedaily.org/diseasedaily/article/anthrax-outbreak-siberia-harbinger-unfreezing-pathogens-81616

“Anthrax sickens 13 in western Siberia, and a thawed-out reindeer corpse may be to blame” - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/28/anthrax-sickens-13-in-western-siberia-and-a-thawed-out-reindeer-corpse-may-be-to-blame/

“Thawing Siberian permafrost soil risks rise of anthrax and prehistoric diseases” - The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/thawing-siberian-permafrost-soil-risks-rise-anthrax-prehistoric/

“Russian officials blame thawed reindeer carcass in anthrax outbreak” - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/health/anthrax-thawed-reindeer-siberia/index.html

Pathogenic Pandora's Box

Gainer, R. (2016). Yamal and anthrax. The Canadian veterinary journal, 57(9), 985.

Houwenhuyse, S., Macke, E., Reyserhove, L., Bulteel, L., & Decaestecker, E. (201&