The report notes the affected person is a veterinarian who participated in the necropsy of a cow in the Don Benito area. The individual has mild symptoms and is receiving treatment.

In addition, two other veterinarians have been admitted as a precaution exhibiting some symptoms after working on a equine necropsy.

In a press conference, Vergeles today downplayed the case detected in humans as it is mild, cutaneous, one of the three types of anthrax disease, along with digestive and systemic, the most serious. ” The possibility of human-to-human transmission is unthinkable, fundamentally special caution must be exercised in workers and workers of livestock farms, and in which a case of anthrax has been confirmed in animals they have to take special care and protect themselves, but not it has no more importance, only to treat the disease adequately, “said Vergeles.

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