anthrax

The Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit of the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA) has confiscated some meat products suspected to be infected with anthrax bacteria at Kasoa new market. The product included legs, ribs, tail, head and other parts of the cow. Following the outbreak of the disease in the Upper East Region, the Regional Public Health Emergency Management Committee (PHEMC) ordered the ban on sales and transportation of livestock, including cattle, sheep and goat. This measure is to control and avert the spread of the disease and its devastating impact on the lives of animals and human beings.…

Another anthrax case has been recorded in the Duusi community in the Talensi district of the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was confirmed by the District Chief Executive of Talensi, Thomas Dunab in an interview with Accra-based TV3 and monitored by GhanaWeb. Thomas stated in the interview that a test conducted on two dead cattle came out positive. “We had earlier taken instructions from the RCC. So, we had put everyone on alert and when they spotted the death of two cows in the dossier area, they quickly moved in with the vet officers to pick up samples to…