ANTHRAX – KYRGYZSTAN (03): (OSH) HUMAN, CATTLE
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1) Osh: human
2) Osh: cattle
[1] Osh: human
Date: Mon 7 Aug 2023
Source: Akipress [in Russian, machine trans., edited] https://zdorovie.akipress.org/news:1965125/?from=eco&place=other-project
In the Osh region, 6 people were diagnosed with anthrax. Now they are
undergoing treatment in medical institutions.
Information about the disease was confirmed by Bekmurza Kanybekov,
deputy chief physician of the Osh Regional Center for Disease
Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance.
According to him, anthrax was diagnosed in 3 residents of the Uzgen
region and 3 residents of the Kara-Suu region.
Sanzhar Suuranbaev, deputy director of the Kara-Suu Territorial
Hospital, said that 2 citizens who had previously been diagnosed with
anthrax were being treated at the medical facility. “According to the
patients who are undergoing treatment with us, on 14 Jul [2023] they
bought cattle on the market, on 20 Jul [2023] they slaughtered the
cattle together with the villagers, and divided the meat. After a
while, they contacted us. Now their condition is assessed as
satisfactory. Anthrax disease was confirmed in them, one of them
developed ulcers on 2 fingers of his left hand, the 2nd — in the
forearm,” he said.
According to Suuranbaev, another resident, who then received meat,
turned to the Osh regional hospital for help, and another turned to
the Osh city hospital for medical help.
The Infectious Diseases Hospital in Osh reported that they were
treating one patient with anthrax.
Bekmurza Kanybekov, deputy chief physician of the Osh Regional Center
for Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological
Surveillance, also said that the disease was confirmed in one person
in the Kara-Suu district.
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