Anthrax in cows - Slovakia

[Gert van der Hoek]

ANTHRAX, BOVINE - SLOVAKIA: (PRESOV) OIE
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A ProMED-mail post
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Date: Tue 13 Jul 2010

Source: OIE, WAHID (World Animal Health Information Database)
reports, 2010 [edited]

http://www.oie.int/wahis/reports/en_imm_0000009507_20100713_122637.pdf


Anthrax, Slovakia
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Information received on (and dated) 13 Jul 2010 from Mr Jan
Pliesovsky, Chief Veterinary Officer, State Veterinary and Food
Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Bratislava, Slovakia

Summary
Report type: immediate notification
Start date: 9 Jul 2010
Date of 1st confirmation of the event: 9 Jul 2010
Report date: 13 Jul 2010
Date submitted to OIE: 13 Jul 2010
Reason for notification: reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence: 1995
Manifestation of disease: clinical disease
Causal agent: _Bacillus anthracis_
Nature of diagnosis: laboratory (basic), laboratory (advanced), necropsy
This event pertains to the whole country

New outbreaks
Outbreak 1 (2010/1): Sobos, Svidnik, Presov
Date of start of the outbreak: 9 Jul 2010
Outbreak status: continuing (or date resolved not provided)
Epidemiological unit: farm
Affected animals
Species / Susceptible / Cases / Deaths / Destroyed /
Slaughtered
Cattle / 120 / 7 / 7 / 7 / 0

Summary of outbreaks:

Total outbreaks: 1

Outbreak statistics

Species / Apparent morbidity rate / Apparent mortality rate /
Apparent case fatality rate / Proportion susceptible animals lost*
Cattle / 5.83 percent / 5.83 percent / 100.00 percent / 11.67 percent
* Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction,
and/or slaughter

Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection: unknown or inconclusive

Control measures
Measures applied: quarantine; disinfection of infected
premises/establishment(s); no vaccination; no treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied: no other measures

Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type: State Veterinary and Food Institute (SVFI),
Dolny Kubin (national laboratory)
Tests and results: Species / Test / Test date / Result
Cattle / bacteriological examination / 9 Jul 2010 / positive

Future reporting
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.

Map of outbreak locations
Location of current outbreaks [go to site map and klick on map to zoom in.]

[The last livestock outbreak in Slovakia involved 3 cattle in a
single outbreak in 1995. Since then it has been very quiet. Cattle
vaccination petered out around 2000.

In the old Czechoslovak Republic there was a single case in 1988; the
Czechs have not reported any outbreaks since independence in 1993 and
have long not reported any vaccination activity. However, there was a
Slovak human case in 2003, the cause of which was not clear.

This OIE report is classically brief to the point of being all but
uninformative. If any of our members in Slovakia can enlighten us as
to the possible source of this outbreak it would be appreciated. That
7 animals were afflicted is just a simple reflection of this disease
being lost to veterinary memory, awareness, and immediate suspicion
with unexpected deaths. This happens in both branches of medicine,
human and veterinary.

If I were in charge of this outbreak, I would make sure that the
other 113 animals were vaccinated immediately, and that this would be
repeated annually for the next 3 years. A simple and inexpensive
insurance against a resurgence. And to check the neighbouring herds
to make sure that they had not had any unreported deaths in the past
week or so. Farmers like to lean on their fences watching the goings
on next door but silent about events in their own pastures. - Mod.MHJ]

[The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of Slovakia is available at
<http://healthmap.org/r/01Gz>. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]
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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Anthrax, bovine - slovakia

Re: Anthrax, bovine - slovakia


google translated

In Sobo? found anthrax in cattle

Challenged the deadly bacterium in bovine Sobo? (District Svidn?k).
Veterinarians laboratory tests, they found the presence of anthrax, a
anthrax. Was there a farmer has already come about ten cows.

Sobo?. Dangerous bacteria kills cows one by one. Within one week
left 31-year-old farmer from Ladislav Jankuvovi 58-member herd of ten
cows. Recent died during the weekend and Mon If so go on,
to cook it. There it is business failure and inability to repay loans. Recently, the
It bought a tractor. The cattle business seven years.

Anthrax spores survive one hundred years
The young man would be expected that animals on infected pastures. At least this way the malicious
explain the disease veterinarians. "Over the pasture probably once buried dead
cows that were challenged anthrax. The recent floods are likely to
spores washed up, that is, spores of the bacteria, "said veterinarian from the Regional
Veterinary and Food Administration in Svidnik Michal Zozuľ?k.

Mass graves of domestic animals had to be decades ago. "He told
I was with their older colleagues, and no one mentioned that it would be around Sobo?
buried dead animals. At least fifty years back it was certainly not, "
vet says that the anthrax spores are able to survive 100 years.

A young farmer, however, argues that the former mrchovisku with cows too stop:
"For the wet. The cows grazed elsewhere. Through the meadow, where they probably infected, I
they just swept. "unlucky man no longer believes that his flock to save harvested.

Can also sicken people
The incubation period of this disease is 14 days. Therefore, veterinarians will flock daily
check nezdochne other animal. According to the farmer is the disease
insidious: "All the cows seem to look healthy. Suddenly, a crash and five
minutes are after. "

Veterinarians ordered the implementation of measures to not spread disease. It is portable
to people and infected people dying in terrible pain. Anyone with
animals come into contact, must undergo treatment.

http://korzar.sme.sk/c/5460538/v-sobosi-zistili-antrax-u-dobytka.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Anthrax, bovine - slovakia

Re: Anthrax, bovine - slovakia

Recently Eastern Europe was hit by flashfloods, also in Slovakia. Apparently the floods brought the anthrax bacteria back from contaminated soil or from burried cows , which died from anthrax some 50 years ago.


http://aktualne.centrum.sk/domov/regiony/clanek.phtml?id=1211991

google translated

Farmer in the village Soboš / anthrax has killed 10 cows

Death among the cattle started early last week



16:10 | 07.12.2010 | AP

Soboš - Cattle 31-year-old farmer from the village in the district Soboš Svidník challenged
bacterium Bacillus anthracis. As a result of infectious disease anthrax, which
makes it today died ten cows.

Cattle from the original 58-member breeding herd Soboš started early death among more
last week. "The last three pieces of cows died during the past three days, including
today, "said Michael Zozuľák from the Regional Veterinary and Food Administration
in Svidník.

He said laboratory tests confirmed the disease on Thursday 8th July, which
samples taken from one animal in the workplace and the State Veterinary
Food Institute in Dolny Kubin.

"This disease has occurred here more than 50 years, it is not the first nesignalizovali
symptoms in the sighting of dead animals, as we have not seen them for discharges
non-coagulated blood from the body's natural openings, which are typical for anthrax, "
Zozuľák found.

Desperate land managers: For the flooding they face execution

He said it is highly likely that infected cattle in the wetlands
pasture near the village of Soboš. "It is assumed that these places once
there mrchovisko where the cadavers are buried, "said Zozuľák.

Spores of anthrax, the source of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, according to
it could reach the surface after the recent floods. Cows are breeding from quarantine
the animal health measures at the farm housed in Soboš.


Animal disease came after more than 50 years

"Every day investigating their clinical condition and measure their temperature," said Zozuľák.

Farm owner, handlers, and more veterinarians are in the
On the preventive antibiotic treatment subdue. "Drugs will receive for a period of 60
days, "he said Zozuľák.

Whether the holding in Soboš manage to save, in his opinion is too early to tell.
"Every day a growing piece of dead, but I assume that the mortality of animals should be in
These days, with respect to the peak of the disease incubation period of lull, "said
Zozuľák.

"This disease must be taken very seriously because it is transmissible to humans,"
Paul told Reuters Rajzák of the Regional Veterinary and Food Administration in
Prešov.

He said there are three forms of anthrax infection. The skin may occur after
contact with the agent of disease, intestinal form after eating infected meat.
Is the most dangerous form of lung, associated with pneumonia and pleurisy.