A patient suspected of anthrax was hospitalized in the Moscow region. How reported In the press service of the regional Rospotrebnadzor, the patient arrived in the region from Chuvashia, where several cases of infection had previously been detected.
Specialists of the department have already started an investigation of the epidemic, and have also taken a set of anti-epidemic measures. In addition, the patient’s place of residence was disinfected.
In the afternoon of March 22, the telegram channel Mash writing that the patient managed to leave the Moscow region and return to Chuvashia, where he was hospitalized. Rospotrebnadzor called this information false. Subsequently, Mash also refuted his report, stating that the patient had been referred to a medical facility in Sergiev Posad.
March 15, leader of Chuvashia Oleg Nikolaev informed that two people were hospitalized with anthrax in the Tsivilsky municipal district of the republic. He noted that the sick are in a moderate state of gravity, but nothing threatens their lives.
Subsequently, the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor declared that the two infected people contracted anthrax through contact with a slaughtered bull carcass. By words Nikolaev, both infected residents of the region, had contact with more than 130 people, who were then placed under medical supervision. According to Mash, the citizen hospitalized with anthrax in the Moscow region was among those quarantined, but left Chuvashia.
March 17 leader of Chuvashia published a decree stating that the sick were identified in the village of Staroe Aktashevo, Tsivilsky district. The document decided to introduce quarantine in the village.
March 22 Nikolayev informed that a third infected person has been identified in the area. The area chief noted that the man had also been involved in the slaughter of a bull with anthrax.
Against the background of the identified cases of infection, Rospotrebnadzor issued a note in which underline that anthrax is not transmitted from person to person, and infection is possible only through direct contact with a sick animal, when the microbe penetrates the microtrauma of human skin. Anthrax can also be contracted by eating undercooked meat products, the department added. In addition, they recommended avoiding the purchase of meat products and animal skins by hand and “from unauthorized places of commerce”.
