In Zambia's Muchinga province, the ancient tension between survival and safety has surfaced once more, as twelve people now receive treatment for anthrax after consuming meat from wildlife that perished in a disease outbreak stretching back to July. The bacterium Bacillus anthracis — long dormant in the region's soil — has claimed dozens of hippos, elephants, buffalo, and a crocodile in the Munyamadzi Game Management Area, and the hunger that drove local residents to those carcasses has now drawn human lives into the same peril. Zambia has faced this reckoning before, most devastatingly in 201
Zambia warns against eating wildlife as anthrax outbreak infects 12 people
12 people infected with anthrax after consuming contaminated wildlife meat; no deaths reported but cases under treatment.