Anthrax (2001)

When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center A reporter encourages the angry ranchers led by the Mounties motherinlaw to stage a sitin at the research center When an eccentric old rancher dies after being exposed to a deadly strain of anthrax the protesters are quarantined No one notices that the reporter has disappeared along with several vials of the deadly bacteria The RCMP officer begins his own investigation gleaning information from a US government agent He finds himself racing against time to recover the stolen anthrax