Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2018ZX10101002)
Article History
Received: 21 January 2019
Accepted: 10 February 2020
First Online: 14 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All survey procedures in this study were performed in accordance with the guidelines of the national anthrax surveillance program of China. The corresponding ethics inspection was approved by the Ethics Committee [Institutional Review Board (IRB)] at the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention (ICDC) at the Chinese CDC (License number: ICDC-2014013).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.