[honway]

How do you become infected with anthrax? Can it happen the same way you get a cold or does this imply work of evil doers.

[Tree of Liberty]

Don't know about livestock to human transfer, but in bio-warefare it would probably be transmitted via an aerosol. I've read that there's about a 30% death rate once it's contacted mucus membrane. It is not contagious.

[The Energizer]

Anthrax, a bacterium found in some soil, most commonly causes disease in livestock and occasionally in people exposed to infected animals.

[Dave S]

How do you become infected with anthrax? Can it happen the same way you get a cold or does this imply work of evil doers.

Its an airborne disease. You breath in spores. Its not contagious like small pox. One good rain would wipe it out.

Although the guy is old, my guess would be that the infected person may have been a terrorist trying to work with Anthrax.