Anthrax -- Worldwide/Unknown
An unknown strain of _Bacillus cereus_ causing anthrax-like disease was 1st isolated in a dead chimpanzee in Cote d'Ivoire in 2001 and again in 2002. Following in 2004 and 2006, researchers isolated samples from another chimpanzee and a western lowland gorilla further east in Cameroon. Although anthrax is caused by _Bacillus anthracis_, tests showed the isolated strain was a form of _B. cereus_ carrying plasmids that were identical to the virulence plasmids found in _B. anthracis_. The new
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