A joint study from the Canadian government's environmental agency and American scientists says significant quantities of chemicals and pesticides are being released from the Great Lakes and evaporate off the surface in a process called outgassing. There are fears over biological terrorism after a rare anthrax case in Florida, America. Anthrax isn't contagious but can be contracted through things like livestock and soil. It can effect the skin and in its more lethal form can settle on the lungs. It has been developed as a potential biological weapon by some countries.
Anthrax causes pneumonia and patients are treated with antibiotics.
There is a vaccine to prevent it spreading but in America it's only available to the military. Although insisting bioterrorism isn't a major threat, investigators say they are adding it to the list of possibilities. Russia is to modernise its aging spy satellite fleet to get more information on rogue states like Afghanistan. He says surveillance data of Afghanistan is available, but those satellites providing it will soon be decommissioned. Much of the information coming into the country is from US satellites.