Cattle vaccinated against anthrax in Azerbaijan's northern regions

As many as 39,000 heads of cattle and 95,000 heads of small cattle have been vaccinated and control on border check points and slaughtering sites have been toughened, Head of Veterenary Office of northern Gusar region Fakhraddin Ibrahimov said.

Head of the Veterinary Office of northern Guba region Hasan Isayev said 67,000 heads of cattle and 230,000 heads of sheep and goats have been vaccinated against the epidemic.

Anthrax is an acute infectious disease of a group of especially dangerous infections. A person usually becomes infected from sick animals or infected material like skin and hair.

Usually horses, reindeer, large and small cattle and pigs become infected with the disease.

It was revealed that anthrax approached borders of Azerbaijan back in 1995. According to Russian sources, in 1995, anthrax infection was revealed in animals in the Stavropol Krai, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Samara, Kirov, Rostov, Kurgan and Orel regions, the republics of North Ossetia, Chuvashia, Buryatia, Tatarstan and Chechnya.


/Vesti.az/