The buffer zone created around the hotbed of the anthrax outbreak in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous area has been expanded to 11,000 square kilometers, the press office of the region’s governor has told TASS.
The Pentagon said Friday that there were more accidental deliveries of live anthrax spores to U.S. and overseas laboratories than originally thought and that it had ordered an in-depth review.
“Five people have been placed under medical watch on suspicion that they have been infected,” local healthcare agency says...
Anthrax has been found in beef in eastern Hungary, local healthcare
agencies said. “Five people have been placed under medical watch on
suspicion that they have been infected,” they said. Infected beef from a farm in Tiszafured, some 160 kilometres east of Budapest, is believed to be the source of the outbreak.