News has just broken of a man, apparently a drummer in a band, contracting inhalation anthrax, not from a terror attack (as happened in 2001 shortly after 9/11) but from touching an animal hide, or so initial reports suggest.
For more information on anthrax, from the mundane encounters to nightmare scenarios, please read ACSH's full report on the topic, Anthrax: What You Need to Know.
(Sidenote: Anthrax is one of the rarely-mentioned drawbacks of agrarian living, but heading back to the land still has an appeal for people like most of the commentators on National Review's new blog about "crunchy" conservatives, so your humble FactsAndFears editor has weighed in about the merits of modernity and problems with "sustainable" living.)