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 It said the disease was identified in a cow slaughtered in a home.
Last week anthrax was identified in frozen beef in a different part
of Hungary after two cattle were slaughtered illegally on a farm.
NEBIH said the two cases were not related. It said animals are
infected via feedstock, such as by grazing in contaminated fields.
The anthrax bacteria can spread after floods or during longer
periods of drought when wells become contaminated, the authority
said.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by David Goodman)
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