The Yamal Peninsula, where the outbreak occurred, was immediately closed off and the carcasses of the dead animals burned. 1968 –Yamal is claimed to be “clean“ of anthrax. Mass vaccination against anthrax continues on Yamal Peninsula Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 10:46 0 Comments. YEKATERINBURG (Sputnik) — Earlier this week, 90 people were hospitalized in the region after an abnormal summer heat wave triggered an outbreak of this deadly bacterial disease . Within a few weeks, the disease had wiped out more than 2,000 reindeer. Yamal, the peninsula straddling the northern Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob, is sparsely populated by mostly indigenous nomadic reindeer herders. The danger that bacteria will mutate, however, presents a … Alexey Nenyanga is an Indigenous Nenets man from the Yamal Peninsula in Northern Russia. YAMAL PENINSULA, Siberia––Reindeer did not deliver presents to 45 families of herders on the remote Yamal Peninsula of Siberia at Christmas Eve 2016, but rather were the presents. Eight other people are now confirmed to be suffering from anthrax, including three children, according to preliminary diagnoses in the outbreak on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. Temperatures there in July were up to eight degrees higher than normal, reaching 34 degrees Celsius (93.2 degrees Fahrenheit). A "security belt" will be set around the anthrax contamination zone on the Yamal Peninsula, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said Tuesday. A total of 170 specialists divided on 26 vaccination teams are currently engaged in … Record high temperatures in Arctic Russia are believed to be one of the main factors behind the emergence of the deadly anthrax disease in northwestern Siberia. Amid temperatures of up to 35C in 2016, … The reindeer were sent to help the Yamalo-Nenets residents recover from herd losses resulting from three recent anthrax outbreaks caused by global warming. The anthrax outbreak zone was in the Yamalsky District, the part of the Okrug that covers all of the Yamal Peninsula. Reindeers and herders at a farm in Siberia's Tundra on the Yamal peninsula in November 2007Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters NEWS BRIEF A heatwave in … A doctor takes a health checkup of children outside Yar-Sale town at Yamal Peninsula following a recent anthrax outbreak in the far north of Russia which left … Hundreds of people were suspected of being infected and had to be hospitalized. Animals and people began exhibiting strange symptoms. Yamal reindeer caused by anthrax in 1898–1931 –at least1 million heads in 68 epizooties. Melting permafrost in the Arctic is unearthing diseases and destroying landscapes. In 2016, the Yamal Peninsula of Siberia had its first anthrax outbreak in 75 years, likely triggered when a heatwave thawed the region’s permafrost and released anthrax spores from a … 59 pestilence fields were taken into account in YNAO, 10 in the Yamalskiyraion. A Nenets woman stands with reindeer on the Yamal peninsula, north of the polar circle, August 4, 2009. It turns out the anthrax was trapped in the permafrost, in the remains of a reindeer that had died from the pathogen and become frozen 75 years earlier. “People were evacuated, dogs put to sleep, chums (traditional Nenets tents) … After deaths were recorded repeatedly in recent years, many animals are being vaccinated as a precaution. He lost most of his reindeer during the sudden outbreak of anthrax in the region this summer. The destabilization of gas hydrates containing huge amounts of methane gas are believed to have caused the craters on the Yamal Peninsula. 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