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Farmer contracts skin anthrax in Saskatchewan
CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, July 15, 2006
REGINA -- The largest outbreak of anthrax among livestock in Saskatchewan history has led to the first case of human anthrax in Canada since 1990, the provincial government announced Friday.
But the province's chief medical health officer said there is little cause for concern.
A Melfort, Sask.,-area farmer has contracted a case of cutaneous anthrax through a break in his skin from handling a dead animal that was among the more than 100 animals, mostly cattle, killed in the anthrax outbreak in the area.
The farmer is in his 50s. His name is not being released.
Skin anthrax is the least serious type of anthrax and the man is being treated with antibiotics as an outpatient.
Dr. Ross Findlater said it is extremely rare for people in Canada to contract anthrax and there is almost no chance someone could contract the more serious gastrointestinal or pulmonary anthrax from the Melfort-area outbreak.
"We wanted people to be well informed about (the outbreak) and to not panic. It's not a really big public health issue for humans. It's kind of an expected finding if you've got a big enough agricultural outbreak that somebody might get the skin disease. The skin disease is not a serious disease as long as it is treated," he said in Regina.
After contracting skin anthrax, a person develops an itchy bump within one to 12 days, which then progresses into a blister and then a skin ulcer with a black centre. In most people the lesion resolves in about six weeks. Some people also develop headaches, muscle aches, fever and vomiting.
The last case in Canada was in British Columbia in 1990. The next previous case was in the 1960s.
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More info on Anthrax
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm
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Farmer contracts skin anthrax in Saskatchewan
CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, July 15, 2006
REGINA -- The largest outbreak of anthrax among livestock in Saskatchewan history has led to the first case of human anthrax in Canada since 1990, the provincial government announced Friday.
But the province's chief medical health officer said there is little cause for concern.
A Melfort, Sask.,-area farmer has contracted a case of cutaneous anthrax through a break in his skin from handling a dead animal that was among the more than 100 animals, mostly cattle, killed in the anthrax outbreak in the area.
The farmer is in his 50s. His name is not being released.
Skin anthrax is the least serious type of anthrax and the man is being treated with antibiotics as an outpatient.
Dr. Ross Findlater said it is extremely rare for people in Canada to contract anthrax and there is almost no chance someone could contract the more serious gastrointestinal or pulmonary anthrax from the Melfort-area outbreak.
"We wanted people to be well informed about (the outbreak) and to not panic. It's not a really big public health issue for humans. It's kind of an expected finding if you've got a big enough agricultural outbreak that somebody might get the skin disease. The skin disease is not a serious disease as long as it is treated," he said in Regina.
After contracting skin anthrax, a person develops an itchy bump within one to 12 days, which then progresses into a blister and then a skin ulcer with a black centre. In most people the lesion resolves in about six weeks. Some people also develop headaches, muscle aches, fever and vomiting.
The last case in Canada was in British Columbia in 1990. The next previous case was in the 1960s.
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More info on Anthrax
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm
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