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First anthrax outbreak since 1941: 9 hospitalised, with two feared to have disease
By The Siberian Times reporter
26 July 2016
Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.
Up to 1,200 deer have been lost in the Yamalsky district in Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, as urgent action is underway to inoculate 'at risk' nomads including children. A total of nine have been hospitalised, including four children, with two of those in intensive care suspected of suffering from dangerous anthrax.
It is the first outbreak of deadly infection anthrax in 75 years, and a strict quarantine regime was put in place by governor Dmitry Kobylkin, including mass evacuation of herders most at risk, and their families.
Initially it was thought a heat wave in the tundra region, which straddles the Arctic Circle, was responsible for sudden reindeer deaths.
Now it is feared anthrax has played a major part in the deaths...
First anthrax outbreak since 1941: 9 hospitalised, with two feared to have disease
By The Siberian Times reporter
26 July 2016
Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.
Up to 1,200 deer have been lost in the Yamalsky district in Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, as urgent action is underway to inoculate 'at risk' nomads including children. A total of nine have been hospitalised, including four children, with two of those in intensive care suspected of suffering from dangerous anthrax.
It is the first outbreak of deadly infection anthrax in 75 years, and a strict quarantine regime was put in place by governor Dmitry Kobylkin, including mass evacuation of herders most at risk, and their families.
Initially it was thought a heat wave in the tundra region, which straddles the Arctic Circle, was responsible for sudden reindeer deaths.
Now it is feared anthrax has played a major part in the deaths...
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