Five months after a four-year-old calf named Gayatri died of anthrax in Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, authorities have heightened surveillance, vaccinated captive elephants, quarantined the death site, and launched livestock vaccination nearby. Officials are implementing short- and long-term SOPs, forensic checks, and staff monitoring to prevent recurrence, acknowledging anthrax spores can persist in soil and threaten wildlife-livestock-human interfaces.
