Two people living in the Republic of Chuvashia, possibly a married couple, were hospitalized for anthrax infection. According to Regional Health Minister Vladimir Stepanov, the condition of both patients is moderate.
“As of March 15, two patients with a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of anthrax were hospitalized in the Chuvash Republic. They receive all the necessary special treatment. The therapeutic prognosis is favorable, – aforementioned it is TASS.
Stepanov noted that doctors daily monitor the health of people in contact with the infected. They are receiving preventive treatment.
Also started Rosselkhozdnadzor investigation A case of anthrax infection in Chuvashia. The infected couple reportedly bred seven sheep and two bulls on their personal side farm.
Aleksey Palkin, head of the Chuvashia department of Rosselkhoznadzor, noted that the employees of the department checked the conditions of holding the allegedly infected bull during slaughter and whether the animal was observed by veterinarians.
“We are working within our authority to understand how the virus originated and where it came from. Our experts are going to this place right now,” Palkin added.
ex-president of the republic Oleg Nikolaev reported In the official Telegram channel, it was reported that the health status of people in contact with patients is good. According to him, the infected live in the Tsivilsky municipal district.
Nikolaev said that an operational meeting was held regarding the incident. The Republic Sanitary and Anti-Epidemiological Commission also took part.
“The necessary procedures are being carried out together with the Rospotrebnadzor Office of the Chuvash Republic, the State Veterinary Service of the Chuvash Republic, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chuvash Republic, a regulation has been developed to prevent the spread of infection.” he wrote, promising to complete his task of ensuring the safety of residents.
With data Telegram channel Mash infected a hospitalized man with anthrax and injured himself with a knife while slaughtering a bull.
“A bull with a man’s average weight of 700-900 kg was able to sell about 500-600 kg of infected meat. Probably – to the gypsies on the highway. It is not known where they migrated, whether they stayed in the region and where half a ton of anthrax meat is now.”
It was recorded that the man and his wife felt uncomfortable after the possible sale of meat and applied to the doctors on their own. The Telegram channel claims that there is no meat left for laboratory analysis, and the purchased feed is allegedly the source of the animal’s disease. “Now Rosselkhoznadzor understands where he came from in Chuvashia,” writes Mash.
Infection expert Vladimir Nikiforov believes locals can catch anthrax while working the soil or coming into contact with a sick animal.
“If there was anthrax 200-300 years ago in these places where a case is described in Chuvashia, then a person could have been infected by contact with the ground. For example, if you are digging a hole.
Before a sick animal dies, it vomits and diarrhoea, the pathogen is released into the environment, turns into spores, and the land in that area becomes infected forever. – announced Included in the commentary of the radio station “Moscow is speaking”.
Named Chief Investigator, National Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Center NF Gamalei Anatoly Altshtein, noted that the disease is severe and potentially fatal.
“But human-to-human transmission is very difficult, so the two cases detected in Chuvashia do not threaten Russia with an epidemic. There is no anthrax epidemic among humans. They are usually infected from diseased animals such as cows.” registered Expert in a conversation with News.Ru.
Andrey Prodeus, Doctor of Medical Sciences, host of the Wellness program said Newspaper.Ru, how to protect people from anthrax?
“You don’t need to just buy meat and unprofessional slaughter of non-veterinary animals. And overall, Rospotrebnadzor does a great job of controlling sporadic cases of anthrax,” said the doctor.
He noted that this disease is common in Russia and in the world. At the same time, Rospotrebnadzor services control the situation and take all necessary measures to isolate and contain the epidemic.
“Therefore, the citizens of Russia need not be afraid, because we do not hunt in the wild forests and do not cut the skins. If we don’t do that, then we have no chance of getting anthrax,” Prodeus is confident.
The course of the disease is said to have several forms. Online “Volosovsky interregional hospital” of the Leningrad region. With skin infection, itching first appears, and then a purulent spot appears, after 2-6 days it turns into a painless ulcer covered with a black crust. However, the patient experiences fever, weakness, headache and body aches.
The pulmonary form of the disease is accompanied by fever, chills, chest pain and copious sputum. After 3-5 days, acute pulmonary failure develops, which can lead to shock and death.
The intestinal form of anthrax begins with pain in the abdomen and lower back, nausea, vomiting, bloody loose stools.
The incubation period of the disease lasts from 2 to 7 days.