Salud Extremadura notifies the Ministry of Agriculture of a case of anthrax in a mare
Health The lives of 250,000 reindeer in exchange for stopping an anthrax epidemic
The Minister of Health of Extremadura, José María Vergeles, confirmed this Friday a
case of anthrax- or cutaneous anthrax
- in a person from the Don Benito-Villanueva de la Serena Health Area.
The affected person is receiving treatment and is in a mild state, according to the counselor, who has also reported that there has been a second contagion between animals, in this case again in a horse.
The transmission could have affected a veterinarian who participated in the necrosis of a cow in the Don Benito area, while
two
other
veterinarians would have shown some symptoms and were admitted as a precaution
after intervening in equine necrosis.
The Junta de Extremadura ensures that it maintains epidemiological surveys and surveillance to know the extent of this infection and has commissioned the Tragsatec company to monitor all incidents that may occur as a result of these cases and samples are being taken to find
the origin of the case of anthrax detected
in a mare from Navalvillar de Pela to determine the extent of the infection.
In the case of infections in animals, the Junta de Extremadura has sent four more samples to the specialized laboratory in Granada for analysis,
still without results
.
At a press conference, Vergeles today downplayed the case detected in humans as it is mild, cutaneous, one of the three types of anthrax disease, along with digestive and systemic, the most serious. "
The possibility of human-to-human transmission is unthinkable
, fundamentally special caution must be exercised in workers and workers of livestock farms, and in which a case of anthrax has been confirmed in animals they have to take special care and protect themselves, but not it has no more importance, only to treat the disease adequately, "said Vergeles, according to EFE.
The Ministry of Agriculture has not yet decided to suspend veterinary inspections in the farms in the area, although it is possible that some
have been "postponed" to next Monday
, according to the counselor.
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