Anthrax is not found among humans, said virologist Anatoly Altshtein, principal investigator of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. Words lead the way RT.
He noted that the disease is transmitted from person to person with great difficulty.
“Therefore, there is no anthrax epidemic among humans. “This is a disease of cattle and sheep, and a person is most often transmitted from animals,” he said.
According to the virologist, the disease occurs in two forms – skin and lung.
With a skin disease, abscesses form on the body, in which case the mortality rate reaches 20%. He says a pulmonary form occurs that sometimes leads to severe pneumonia. He emphasized that such a probability in the course of the disease is extremely low.
Previously recognizedHe said that last week, five people in two regions of Russia were hospitalized with suspected anthrax.
In Chuvashia, the infection was confirmed in three patients, tests in the Moscow region gave two preliminary negative results. In the Chuvash village of Staroe Aktashevo, quarantine was introduced.