In 2009, a New Hampshire woman became sick with gastrointestinal anthrax (a very rare form of the disease that causes flu-like symptoms, sore throat, nausea, and diarrhea) after participating in a drumming event. Your hard work helped to solve this outbreak!Īlthough this scenario was not real, there have been several real-life investigations of anthrax illness involving drums made of contaminated animal hides.ĭisease Detectives worked in 2006 to determine that a drum maker in Pennsylvania caught inhalation anthrax by working with dried goat hides that had traces of anthrax spores.