Zim: 7 in hospital with anthrax
2007-10-20 14:37
Harare/Johannesburg - Seven people have been hospitalised in Zimbabwe with potentially lethal anthrax poisoning following an outbreak of the animal-borne disease in a private game park north of the capital, reports said on Saturday.
The seven have been admitted to hospital in the northern town of Concession, said the state-controlled Herald newspaper.
The outbreak of anthrax - which is normally caught by humans if they eat the meat of infected cattle - occurred at Manzou Game Park in Mazowe, said the paper.
There are sporadic outbreaks of anthrax in Zimbabwe.
Last December three people died in Goromonzi district east of the capital from anthrax that they were suspected to have caught after either eating or handling infected meat. - dpa
- SAPA