An Outbreak of Anthrax Contracted from Handling Infected Beef
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prevailed among the villagers, and I proceeded to Sripur to investigate matters. I found four further cases who were still suffering from malignant pustules, the pustules having broken down and forming the characteristic ulcers, as shewn in the illustration on p. 23. The ulcer on the back of the adult female patient had given rise to much sloughing and had exposed the tendons. Films and scrapings from the ulcers shewed anthrax bacilli, together with
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