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PRO/AH/EDR> Anthrax – India (19): (TN) livestock

Anthrax -- IndiaOfficials of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Vellore have contained an outbreak of anthrax in a village in Ambur following the death of an animal due to anthrax last week. Over 8500 livestock head in Bairapalli village have been vaccinated; T. Manoharan, deputy director (Cattle Breeding and Fodder Development) specialist of the department, said they had formed 15 teams to vaccinate the livestock against anthrax. "We have now contained the spread of the disease, and there are no Read more [...]