Several people got sick of the Siberian ulcer in the Gegorkunik region of Armenia, the Ministry of Health of the countries.
According to the report, the disease is recorded in the villages of Vanesuan and Torchan Vardenissky district. In two cases, the owners of infected cows were infected, the third sick – a relative of one of them, reports Sputnik Armenia.
The state of two patients is estimated as moderate, one more is in a light condition.
Specialists of the reference laboratory center of the Ministry studied the samples of the soil taken from the fields around the village Vaunuan, but did not find the pathogens of the Siberian ulcers.