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Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive bacterium that is the causative agent of anthrax.¹ While foodborne anthrax cases and outbreaks are extremely rare in most developed countries, cases and outbreaks of foodborne anthrax do regularly occur in a number of developing countries. Typically these cases are linked to consumption of meat from animals that have died of anthrax. While consumption of cattle that died of anthrax anthrax^2^ is the most common cause of human foodborne anthrax in these countries, consumption of other animals that have died of anthrax (e.g., hippopotamus^2^hippopotamus^3^) has also reported in anthrax outbreaks.

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¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_anthracis
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