[size=55:3apmhlqo]novinite 21 August 2010

Anthrax Alert Rattles 2 Bulgarian Villages



A shepherd from the village of Stefan Karadzhovo is listed at the hospital in the Bulgarian southern city of Yambol after being diagnosed with a form of skin anthrax, Darik radio reports Saturday.

Georgi Drosev, 47, became infected after slaughtering a sick sheep. He says no one ate meet and he discarded the carcass in a ravine near the village. Doctors report the man is in good condition and will be released next week.

The Veterinary Services have disinfected Drosev’s yard and the ravine while the entire area is under quarantine and domestic animals are being vaccinated.

Meanwhile, there are also suspicions of anthrax in the village of Brestovene, near the northern city of Razgrad where 5 sheep from the same herd died during the week. The 64-year-old owner and shepherd, Mehmed Ismail, and his 8-year-old grandson, Yozzhan, are showing signs of skin anthrax, doctors say. The Vet Services ordered the vaccination of all 1 200 sheep and 400 cattle in the village while the place where the sheep are kept had been treated with penicillin. Samples were sent to Sofia to be tested for anthrax.

Skin anthrax is transmitted from animals to people, but not from one person to another. The bacillus stays in the soil for 100 years.

Oh dear, hope this does no blow out of proportion - Lets hope they have got it under control. Sincerely hope and pray that everyone affected make a good recovery

Oddy

Well this is alarming I must keep my eye on this I know it can be fatal to humans as well as animals depending on the strain

Bulgarian Veterinary Service to Vaccinate Villages over Anthrax Alert

Veterinarians have started vaccinating against anthrax all herbivores in two villages near the Bulgarian cities of Yambol and Razgrad.

The villages of Stefan Karadzhovo and Brestovene were thought to be infected with anthrax.

Six sheep have died in village of Brestovene, but the sample is still expected to be confirmed by the diagnostic laboratory in the National Veterinary-Medical Service in Sofia.

A shepherd from the village of Stefan Karadzhovo was listed at the hospital in Yambol after being diagnosed with a form of skin anthrax, Darik radio reported Saturday. Georgi Drosev, 47, became infected after slaughtering a sick sheep.

Samples from the sheep could not be taken because were no remains of the slaughtered animal, which could have been contaminated. There was no information for other possibly infected sheep in the village.

“We have taken all possible measures. Besides vaccinating the animals, we also disinfected and isolated all the places to which the animals had access to,” said Pencho Kamenov, from the “Animal Welfare” department of the National Veterinary-Medical Service.

The Service has stated that anthrax is a highly contagious disease that is usually transmitted to humans by contact with meat, blood or skin of animals that have died from the disease.

In compliance with the state prevention program, the vaccination against anthrax is carried out every year in all the towns and villages in the country, in which there has been a registered case of anthrax disease over the past 30 years.

In locations where anthrax was registered in the past 10 years, the vaccination is carried out twice a year.

The animals from the village of Stefan Karadzhovo were vaccinated in September 2009, although there has not been a recorded case.

Vaccination has not been carried out in locations near the village of Brestovene because there has not been registered an anthrax case over the past 30 years.

There has not been a confirmed case of the disease all around Bulgariay for the past two years.

I was just wondering the first page of the story said Georgi Drosev, 47, became infected after slaughtering a sick sheep. He says no one ate meet and he discarded the carcass in a ravine near the village Is a ravine not a river or stream - if so where will that infected carcass go!!!

Oddy

[size=55:2mpl9fyd]novinite 23 August 2010

Health Authorities: No Anthrax Case in Northern Bulgaria

Health authorities in Bulgaria have refuted earlier suspicions that two people taken ill over the weekend in the region of northern town of Razgrad suffer from anthrax.

During last week, five sheep from the same herd in the Razgrad village of Brestovene died, while doctors reported that their 64-year-old owner and shepherd, Mehmed Ismail, and his 8-year-old grandson, Yozzhan, are showing signs of skin anthrax.

Monday the Razgrad Regional Inspectorate on Safety and Control of Public Health announced that the diagnosis of Ismail and his grandson was not confirmed by a further specialist in infectious diseases and that the sample sent to the laboratory in Shumen did not confirm anthrax. A further sample has been sent to the national laboratory in Sofia, and results are still outstanding.

Antibiotics were nevertheless prescribed to the shepherd and his family for prevention.

Authorities moreover ordered the vaccination of all 1 200 sheep and 400 cattle in the Brestovene village while the place where the sheep are kept had been treated with penicillin.

Meanwhile, a shepherd from the southern village of Stefan Karadzhovo is listed at the hospital in Yambol after being diagnosed with a form of skin anthrax.

Georgi Drosev, 47, became infected after slaughtering a sick sheep. He says no one ate meet and he discarded the carcass in a ravine near the village. Doctors report the man is in good condition and will be released next week.

Herbivores in Stefan Karadzhovo are also undergoing vaccination.

This is good news at least there is no immediate threat

Oddy

[size=55:1s3ruduv]novinite 03 September 2010

2 New Anthrax Cases Reported in Northern Bulgaria

The two men listed at the isolation ward of the hospital in the Danube city of Ruse have been infected with anthrax, the Regional Health Inspectorate reports.

The Head of the Inspectorate further said that this is the first anthrax case in the Ruse Region in the last thirty years.

The men, 70 and 32, were admitted in the beginning of the week with symptoms of anthrax. They became ill after butchering a goat in the village of Chilnovo.

Skin anthrax is transmitted from animals to people, but not from one person to another. The bacillus stays in the soil for 100 years.

The Health Ministry has been notified and the men have begun penicillin treatment. Samples have tested positive for anthrax.

However, the lab results from the samples from Chilnovo are still expected in order to confirm there is anthrax in the area. It the tests results come out positive, the regional vet services will begin vaccinations of all animals in the village to stop the spreading of the infection.