Kyrgyzstan anthrax outbreak

21 October 2005




Nine people were hospitalised in the Bazarkorgoon district in the Jalalabad region in south-western Kyrgyzstan in mid-October as a result of an anthrax outbreak, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. The source is thought to have been meat from local livestock. Livestock markets in the district were temporarily closed.



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