National and global conferences on health, new age, new thought, green, meditation, and spiritual themes should be aware that when they run familiar and relaxing drumming circles at various convention hotels, the hides of the drums might contain animal hides that could conceivably spread anthrax microbes.

Does your drum contain anthrax? The anthrax spore form lives for years in the soil. When the spores surface, they revert to the vegetative form to cause further disease when eaten by animals.

Carcasses of animal dying with anthrax should not be opened as the vegetative form turns to spores when exposed to air.

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