Anthrax is primarily a disease of domestic animals. Human anthrax is invariably contracted directly or indirectly from animals, usually through occupational exposure to infected or contaminated animal products. It is a bacterial disease caused by Gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-shaped Bacillus anthracis. In the Western Pacific Region, the disease is still enzootic in Cambodia, western China, the Philippines and certain areas of Australia. Where the disease is infrequent in livestock, it is rarely seen in humans.

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