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2014 anthrax outbreak October 2014 7 deaths In October 2014, an outbreak of gastrointestinal and skin anthrax in a village from India in the Simdega district, Jharkhand allegedly killed seven people. Indian government health personnel quarantined 30 houses as a result.
Deaths from anthrax, an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It can occur in four forms: skin, lungs, intestinal, and injection.
Accidental exposure of viable anthrax to 75 personnel at CDC's Roybal Campus. [53] [54] [55] 2014-07-01 Smallpox United States Discovery of six vials containing viable smallpox from the 1950s labeled as Variola (another word for smallpox) in a Food and Drug Administration-managed room on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. [56] 2014
Anthrax usually affects livestock like cattle, sheep and goats, as well as wild herbivores. Humans can be infected if they […] The post Five African countries suffer anthrax outbreaks, with 20 ...
Five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease, with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year, the World Health Organization said ...
By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - As many as 75 scientists working in U.S. federal government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria and are being offered treatment ...
In December 2009, an outbreak of anthrax occurred among injecting heroin users in the Glasgow and Stirling areas of Scotland, resulting in 14 deaths. [23] It was the first documented non-occupational human anthrax outbreak in the UK since 1960. [ 23 ]
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province.