Asturias in Spain reports an outbreak of anthrax in cattle

In June 2022, two outbreaks of anthrax (anthrax) were declared in Extremadura. Now, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, the disease has reached Asturias. It is a focus in the municipality of Cangas de Onis, and has occurred in a cattle farm with 136 sensitive animals. This is the third outbreak notified in Spain this year. Unlike this outbreak, which has occurred in cattle, the outbreaks in the province of Badajoz in Extremadura occurred in sheep. In addition, this year a veterinarian contracted the disease, possibly after performing a necropsy on a cow. In 2021 Extremadura already suffered several cases of anthrax that also affected some people. This situation led the Cáceres Veterinary College to issue an urgent statement in which they asked the region's veterinarians to take extreme precautions when carrying out necropsies on these animals. "Therefore, and given the zoonotic nature of anthrax, if when we visit a farm we find a dead animal that could have symptoms ...