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Anthrax cousin wreaks havoc in the rainforest.

A paper in Nature presents evidence that a new form of anthrax plays a huge role in the ecology of the Tai National Park in Ivory Coast. It apparently causes a large proportion of all mammalian deaths in the park and threatens to wipe out its chimpanzee population. Anthrax is caused by a bacterium named Bacillus anthracis ; the deaths in the Tai rainforest are from a related species, B. cereus , a common and usually benign soil microbe that has acquired most of the genes that make B. anthracis a formidable killer. Many questions still surround this new strain, including how it is transmitted and how far it has spread.