Text of report by privately-owned Kyrgyz AKIpress news agency website
Batken, 15 September: A state of emergency has been declared in Kadamdzhay District of Batken Region [in southern Kyrgyzstan] due to an outbreak of anthrax.
The Kadamdzhay district administration reported that two sources of the disease had been registered in the villages of Uchkorgon and Markaz.
“Now 11 residents of these villages have been taken to hospital with suspected anthrax. The anthrax diagnosis was confirmed in five of them, with one of them in a serious condition,” the deputy head of the district administration, Turgunay Aytmatova, said. The patients are provided with a sufficient amount of medicine necessary for the treatment, she added.
Originally published by AKIpress news agency website, Bishkek, in Russian 0403 15 Sep 08.
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