Show beware ot of anthrax anthrax is an acute disease affecting all domestic animals and man generally fatal the disease Is spread by means of spores from of animals which have died from the disease these spores may live in the soil for years and when picked up tip with their food by grazing animals germinate in the intestinal in tes tract from there the anthrax bacilli invade the blood stream rapidly causing death human beings may become infected when skinning an animal which has died from the disease or by handling the skin or other products |