NASA’s Earth Observatory noted recently that this summer has been plagued by oppressive heat at several global locations.  Temperatures in Siberia have been so warm that a frozen reindeer carcass infected with anthrax defrosted from the permafrost that had encased it and caused an outbreak that killed one child and over 2300 reindeer.  Other areas of extreme heat occurred in the southwestern US and in the Middle East.  You can read about it at https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88547&eocn=home&eoci=iotd_readmore.

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