Anthrax Outbreaks Announced In Two Chinese Provinces

Several dozen people in two different Chinese provinces are being treated for anthrax, an often fatal disease contracted from infected animals. A village in eastern China is under quarantine.

Around 10 people have been diagnosed with anthrax and were isolated according to residents of Ganmazhen Village near the coastal city of Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province.

A villager with the surname Wang told The Epoch Times that the majority of those infected are women. He said that sick cows were believed to have been the source of the outbreak and described the symptoms as “red pimples all over their bodies,” which turn into blisters and then turn black.

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