One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
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The History of Anthrax Epizuotics
anthrax epizuotics occurred in Europe circa 1760, in the late 1770s and 1790s. French physician Niccola Fornier found that people were sometimes infected after ingesting the meat of a similarly infected animal. Spontaneous Charbonne was an occupational disease that sprouted up in poor, unhygienic peasants who handled livestock. Contagious Charbonne could either be external or internal; Internal Charbonne always and immediately fatal.
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