Comparison of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Historic Natural Anthrax Outbreaks in Minnesota and Kazakhstan (Supplementary data)

Abstract

We compared the spatiotemporal patterns of historic animal Anthrax records in Minnesota and Kazakhstan. In Minnesota, 289 animal Anthrax cases reported between 1912 and 2014 to the Minnesota Board of Animal Health were used in the analysis. For events occurred between 1920 and 1999 the geographical coordinates were obtained using historic aerial images whereas, for those cases that occurred after 2000, coordinates were recorded during site visits. For the Republic of Kazakhstan, laboratory confirmed Anthrax cases reported by the Cadastral register of stationary unfavorable foci on Anthrax between 1933 and 2014 (n=3,997) were analyzed. Because of the sensitivity of providing the actual geographical locations/coordinates, these data on reported Anthrax cases were summarized by administrative unit, by year. The administrative units were Minnesota counties and districts of Kazakhstan. This repository contains two separate EXCEL sheets summarizing the data accordingly.