An anthrax prevention campaign will be held in the Voronezh region

After the emergence of several outbreaks of anthrax in the Voronezh region, a large-scale vaccination campaign will be held to prevent anthrax in animals. How reported According to the regional government, all meat and milk producers of any form of ownership, including farms and owners of subsidiary plots, will be able to vaccinate all livestock free of charge.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Logvinov, during inspections of farmsteads in the Voronezh region, 6,804 unregistered farm animals were discovered. Checks will continue until the end of October. The authorities also plan to continue monitoring trade organizations selling meat. Control of the movement of animals will be carried out by mobile traffic police posts at the entrance to the region.

Since the end of summer, several outbreaks of anthrax have been identified in the Voronezh region. On August 21, a resident of the Paninsky district who had contact with a sick cow was hospitalized with an infection. How It revealed later, the animal was not taken into account and was not vaccinated. The man continues treatment to this day. The contaminated meat that he managed to sell ended up on the market in the center of Voronezh, which is why the city was quarantined. On September 1, restrictive measures were lifted.

On September 7, a new outbreak of anthrax was identified in the pasture of a dairy farm in the Bogucharsky district. From the area at the moment hospitalized nine people, eight had laboratory confirmed anthrax. The patients are in a state of moderate severity. As he writes RIA “Voronezh”625 kg of dangerous meat that was sold to five citizens from a new anthrax outbreak was identified and destroyed.

Sergey Tolmachev, Voronezh