Gennady Onishchenko, former head of Rospotrebnadzor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with Reedus commented The situation with anthrax in Chuvashia. He pointed out that the danger of the disease cases that emerged the other day was greatly exaggerated. According to him, it was enough to remove the infected meat from the circulation to prevent the epidemic.
“There is no anthrax epidemic. There are isolated cases. If they are related at all. They just overlooked it, ”Onishchenko said.
He stressed the need for a comprehensive epidemiological study of the situation in the republic.
On the eve of the Investigation Department of the Chuvashian Investigative Committee filed a criminal case on the fact that several local residents are infected with anthrax. It was found that the disease began to spread in the village of Staroe Aktashevo, Tsivilsky municipal district. According to the agency, a peasant killed a bull, which turned out to be a carrier of a dangerous infection for meat.