Photo of potential anthrax hosts, Namibia

This image was selected as a winner of the 2010 Fogarty Grantee Photo Contest.

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Photo title: Potential anthrax hosts, Namibia

Photographer: Wendy C. Turner, University of California, Berkeley

Description: Potential anthrax hosts running from the Okondeka spring with the Etosha saltpan in the background, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Anthrax deaths are primarily seen in herbivorous mammals; carnivores rarely die from anthrax infection. In Etosha, large mixed-species assemblages can be observed in the dry season around the springs and wells that provide water to the Park’s wildlife.

Principal Investigator: Wayne Getz, University of California-Berkeley

Funding Fogarty program: Ecology of Infectious Diseases