[Bangla Daily Star] Seventy-six more people are suspected to have contracted anthrax in sadar and Kaliganj upazilas of Lalmonirhat.The health and livestock officials are yet to confirm whether anthrax has spread to the district, as lab tests of the samples, collected from the infected people, are still going on.
The number of infected people in the district might be confirmed today, they said.
Of the 76 cases, 66 are from Kisamot Harati village under sadar upazila and 10 from Kaliganj upazila, reports our Lalmonirhat correspondent.
A medical team has already collected the specimen of blood and skin from the affected people and sent those to the capital for diagnosis, said Dr Jahangir Alam, civil surgeon of the district.
Authorities of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed 337 human cases of anthrax on Monday.
Though anthrax is not new in the country, this year a significant number of people at different districts are affected with the infection.