Zambian authorities have warned residents not to consume meat from wild animals after an anthrax outbreak killed at least 60 animals — including 46 hippos, eight elephants, five buffaloes, and a crocodile — in the Munyamadzi Game Management Area (a wildlife zone in Muchinga province, northeastern Zambia) since July. Twelve people have been infected after eating carcasses from the affected area, though no deaths have been reported and those infected are receiving treatment. Anthrax, caused by the soil-borne bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is endemic to Zambia and has triggered large outbreaks before, most recently in 2023 when it spread across nine of the country's ten provinces and killed four people; authorities have suspended hunting in the affected zone while investigations into the current outbreak's full extent continue.