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Uzbekistan: Many die of anthrax after eating infected animal (From ProMed)

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Do we have a forum for anthrax as a disease? I couldn't find it - if there is one, please move this thread there.

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Archive Number 20090813.2886
Published Date 13-AUG-2009
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax, human, bovine - Uzbekistan: (TA)


ANTHRAX, HUMAN, BOVINE - UZBEKISTAN: (TASHKENT)
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[1]
Date: Wed 12 Aug 2009
Source: The Times of Central Asia [edited]
<http://www.timesca.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=8&Itemid=13>


From 13 to 15 people have died of anthrax in the town of Toytepa in
Tashkent Region, local residents have said. People contracted anthrax after
eating the meat of an infected cow.

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communicated by:
ProMED-mail rapporteur Susan Baekeland

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[2]
Date: Aug 12, 2009
From: ProMED-mail Med NP (Transl. ATS)
Source: CA-news, August 11, 2009 [Mod.NP]
<http://www.ca-news.org/news/197681?from=ya>


A man died from anthrax in Toytepi
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A 52 year old man died from anthrax in a small city, Toytepi, 25 km from
Tashkent on 3 Aug 2009. This man and several of his neighbors became
infected from the meat of a sick animal, the local residents say. The sick
animal belonged to the neighbor of the deceased, who knew about the disease
but slaughtered the animal and sold the meat across the street. People say
that more then 20 fell sick and more than 10 of them died. Some of the
infected are children, who swam in the water, which was contaminated by the
viscera of the sick cow. The hospital where this case was admitted
confirmed his death, but the deputy of the state sanitary-epidemiological
surveillance department said that the cause of his death was not anthrax.
The official report says that this was the first case and first fatality
from anthrax this year. There were 2 fatal cases during the last year and
no cases in 2007. The worst year was 1991, when about 60 people died from
anthrax.

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[The URL for [1] above gives a login site, then you proceed to the left
hand side and click on Society, Education, Health.

Unfortunately this part of Uzbekistan, like much of western Uzbekistan,
suffers from enzootic anthrax in the local livestock, which overflows into
the human population. - Mod.MHJ

The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Uzbekistan is available at
<http://healthmap.org/r/00Gj>. Tashkent region (province) is in the north
eastern part of the country. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]

[see also:
Anthrax, human, bovine - Kyrgyzstan (04): (DA) 20090811.2861
2007
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Anthrax, bovine - Kazakhstan: (West Kazakhstan) 20071210.3977
2004
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Anthrax, human, bovine - Kyrgyzstan ex Uzbekistan (03) 20040825.2373
Anthrax, human, bovine - Kyrgyzstan ex Uzbekistan (02) 20040804.2130
Anthrax, human, bovine - Kygyzstan ex Uzbekistan 20040725.2036]

.................mhj/mj/ats/sh
 
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