Author: Hugh-Jones, M.

Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology, Volume 87, Number 2, August 1999 , pp. 189-191(3)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract:

While there is a general decrease in the number of anthrax outbreaks, and thus of human cases, worldwide this is still a disease that is extensively under-diagnosed and under-reported. However, it is now very infrequent to rare in Canada, the United States, and many countries in Europe. An increasing number of countries are now free. At the other extreme, it is a significant problem in West Africa, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Albania, Romania and in Central Asia. In spite of the textbooks, livestock and wildlife deaths do occur, sometimes commonly, without any `diagnostic' extravasation of blood and, if not realised, infected carcasses get recycled into meat and bone meals for feed.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00867.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Publication date: 1999-08-01

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