Suspected human anthrax outbreak investigation in a tribal village of Koraput, India, 2021
Jyoti Shandilya, Debaprasad Parai, Hari Ram Choudhary, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Biren Kumar Padhy, Padma Mohan Pradhan, Deepika Saket, Annalisha Peter, Matrujyoti Pattnaik, Arun Kumar Padhi, Sanghamitra Pati, Debdutta Bhattacharya · 2023
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Jyoti Shandilya and a team of co-authors reported an outbreak study from Koraput district in Odisha, India, published in 2023. A bullock died in Tukum village in October 2021, and local people cut it up and ate the meat. Days later, a suspected outbreak of anthrax in people was reported, and a field study began.
The team went house to house for ten days and found four suspected cases among people who had handled or eaten the meat. One of them later died. Tests on skin swabs from the sick found no anthrax germs, likely because drugs had been taken before sampling. Tests on bone, soil, and dried meat from the site did find the germs, which tied the illness to the dead animal.
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| CREATOR | Jyoti Shandilya, Debaprasad Parai, Hari Ram Choudhary, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Biren Kumar Padhy, Padma Mohan Pradhan, Deepika Saket, Annalisha Peter, Matrujyoti Pattnaik, Arun Kumar Padhi, Sanghamitra Pati, Debdutta Bhattacharya |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |