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From: Elina Karakulova (ekarakulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 14:02:57 EDT
ANTHRAX OUTBREAK REPORTED IN SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN
Four people have contracted anthrax and been hospitalized in South Kazakhstan Oblast, Kazakhstan Today reported on 14 July. Two cases were diagnosed in the town of Lenger on 11 July and two more in the village of Abay three days later. The village has been placed under quarantine and medical personnel are taking measures to prevent the spread of the disease, which has been traced to animals slaughtered by the four victims, according to the report. Outbreaks of anthrax contracted from animals that have the disease occur occasionally in Central Asia. Epidemiologists in the region have considerable experience in dealing with naturally occurring outbreaks such as that in South Kazakhstan, but medical authorities in the Aral Sea basin continue to be worried about the possibility of anthrax escaping from a former biological weapons laboratory that was located on an island in the Aral that has become a peninsula as the sea level has fallen. BB
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