100 Cagayan folk rushed to hospitals for ‘anthrax’
>> Monday, January 21, 2013
By Charlie Lagasca
TUGUEGARAO CITY – Close to a
hundred residents in Sto. Niño, Cagayan were taken to clinics and hospitals the
other day when they complained of swollen skin pores after they ate
“double-dead” carabao meat suspected of being contaminated with anthrax.
Provincial health officer Carlos
Cortina, however, said the residents have been discharged, although the meat
samples were still being examined.
Anthrax is a bacterial disease
that afflicts animals like carabaos, cattle and sheep that causes skin ulcers.
It can be transmitted to humans.
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