aICMR-National Institute of Traditional Medicine, Belagavi, Karnataka, India bAssistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, AIIMS Gorakhpur, India cTribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal dDr. D.Y Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India Keywords: Anthrax, Outbreak, Bacillus anthracis, Zoonotic, Disposal Running head: Anthrax Outbreaks Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding author. Address: Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Clinical Research (Harvard Medical School), SRMA (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Editorial Board Member: TMAID, ID Cases and BMC Infectious Diseases, Chief Guest Editor: Vaccine. E-mail address: [email protected], [email protected] (R. Sah). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/