Anthrax question

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As an aside, my brother (who's a vet approaching retirement age) says avoid any cattle burials up to the mid-1950s if the farmer (or his dad or grandad) remembers 'murrain', that'll be anthrax to us younger generations...

We once had a farmer tell us there was a pit full of cattle that died from rinderpest in a field we were trial trenching. We had no clue what this was but avoided ther area like the plague (pun very much intended). With the benefit of Google (which was a long way from bing dreamed up at the time) I now know this to be something in a similar vein to Anthrax and judging by the alternative name of Steppe Murrain it would seem to be the disease noted by Dinosaur Senior.