Four carabaos died due to cutaneous anthrax infection, while 73 people were isolated due to exposure to the infected animals in Santo Niño town, Cagayan province, an official of the DA said. /PDI
Cutaneous anthrax commonly occurs due to unsafe handling of dead animals, which allows resilient anthrax spores to cause notable skin lesions via minor cuts in the exposed body surface, according to the Department of Health.
“This is a dangerous disease as the anthrax bacteria were formed from a spore named Bacillus anthracis,” Galang said. Humans usually acquire the disease directly or indirectly from infected animals, or through occupational exposure to infected or contaminated animal products, according to the World Health Organization.
A multisectoral disease surveillance task force in the region has previously reported that it was on Nov. 23 when the four infected carabaos started showing symptoms of the disease, such as loss of appetite, seizures, immobility and hematuria, or the presence of blood in the urine.On Dec.
Authorities believed the contaminated meat had reached other areas in Cagayan, including Barangay Calassitan in Sto. Niño town, where 73 people were exposed to the disease, with 22 of them displaying cutaneous lesions or skin diseases and were immediately isolated.
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