The number of people hospitalized due to anthrax near Voronezh has risen to nine

Due to the detection of anthrax outbreaks in the Voronezh region, nine people have already been hospitalized. A new outbreak of the disease was discovered last week in the Bogucharsky district of the region. On September 7, it was reported that anthrax spores found on the pasture of a dairy farm (farm Badalova). The authorities introduced restrictive measures affecting the Bogucharsky district and part of Kantemirovsky, and began checking livestock on local farms.

“According to information from Emergency Hospital No. 8, as of September 12, 9 people were hospitalized from the Bogucharsky district, 8 cases of anthrax infection were laboratory confirmed, another is being clarified,” the Department of Health told Kommersant. The department clarified that the patients are in a condition of moderate severity.

Another person who hospitalized After the discovery of the first outbreak of anthrax in the Paninsky district at the end of August, he continues treatment. The identification of the first outbreak led to the introduction of quarantine in Voronezh, where the market found contaminated meat. Investigators aroused there is a criminal case on this fact. September 1st quarantine in the regional center removed.

Sergey Tolmachev, Voronezh