100 Cagayan folk rushed to hospitals for ‘anthrax’

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.