Jakarta, Jan. 18 -- Gunung Kidul District in Yogyakarta Province often experienced the anthrax cases because it had ever been ravaged by the anthrax epidemic in the past, an Indonesian Health Ministry's official revealed in Jakarta on Friday.

"The anthracis spores are able to remain alive for years on contaminated soil and water," The Health Ministry's Director for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention Siti Nadia Tarmizi said commenting on the spread of anthrax in Gunung Kidul District which has infected 27 people.

Due to the fact that the spores remain latent, the areas which had ever experienced an anthrax outbreak decades ago, the anthracis spores can again appear when the contaminated soil of the burial site of dead animals is c...