A drug user in Lancashire has become the eighth person in Europe to fall victim to an anthrax-laced heroin injection in recent months, with experts suggesting the outbreak is far from over.
The death, reported by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), occurred in Blackpool just a few weeks after another incident in Lanarkshire some 273.5km away.
The case is a warning signal -- this deadly Bacillus anthracis bacteria infection is on the move and, as demonstrated by its location jump, tracking it will unfortunately be no easy matter.
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Olivia Solon
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/17/anthrax-death-lancashire
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