Anthrax was confirmed in eight hospitalized patients from the area near Voronezh

Anthrax was confirmed in eight people who were hospitalized in Voronezh from the Bogucharsky district, where another outbreak of the disease was discovered last week. As Kommersant was told by the regional health department, those hospitalized are in a state of moderate severity.

On September 7, in the Bogucharsky district and part of the Kantemirovsky district, restrictive measures were introduced in connection with the discovery of anthrax spores in the pasture of a local dairy farm (Badalova peasant farm). After this, the authorities began checking animals on private farms and vaccinating unvaccinated livestock. At the farm, according to officials, there were unvaccinated animals brought from another area. First, seven people were hospitalized with suspected anthrax, then another.

At the end of summer, anthrax was detected in another district of the Voronezh region – Paninsky. Then the disease discovered after human contact with a slaughtered animal. The man was hospitalized and is still undergoing treatment. Infected meat from the Paninsky district horrible to the market in the center of Voronezh. Quarantine measures were introduced in the city, which have now been lifted.

Sergey Tolmachev, Voronezh