Milzbrand im Kanton Zürich zwischen 1878 und 2005

Ammann, Andrea Brandes; Brandl, Herbert

doi:10.1024/0036-7281.149.7.295

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“…Some work has found Seroprevalences in dogs consistently showing circulation of anthrax in areas where no human or livestock anthrax cases were reported but with high soil alkalinity [4]. Although the results of rainfall as a predictor seems a poor explanatory variable in other research work [24], contrary, our results established that the reoccurrence and outbreaks of Anthrax and rainfall have a well establish association. The soil pH and rainfall predictive map generated was stratified into three classes similar to [25].…”

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Mapping as a tool for predicting the risk of anthrax outbreaks in Northern Region of Ghana

Nsoh¹,

Kenu²,

Forson³

et al. 2016

Pan Afr Med J

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IntroductionAnthrax is a febrile soil-born infectious disease that can affect all warm-blooded animals including man. Outbreaks of anthrax have been reported in northern region of Ghana but no concerted effort has been made to implement risk-based surveillance systems to document outbreaks so as to implement policies to address the disease. We generated predictive maps using soil pH, temperature and rainfall as predictor variables to identify hotspot areas for the outbreaks.MethodsA 10-year secondary data records on soil pH, temperature and rainfall were used to create climate-based risk maps using ArcGIS 10.2. The monthly mean values of rainfall and temperature for ten years were calculated and anthrax related evidence based constant raster values were created as weights for the three factors. All maps were generated using the Kriging interpolation method.ResultsThere were 43 confirmed outbreaks. The deaths involved were 131 cattle, 44 sheep, 15 goats, 562 pigs with 6 human deaths and 22 developed cutaneous anthrax. We found three strata of well delineated distribution pattern indicating levels of risk due to suitability of area for anthrax spore survival. The likelihood of outbreaks occurrence and reoccurrence was higher in Strata I, Strata II and strata III respectively in descending order, due to the suitability of soil pH, temperature and rainfall for the survival and dispersal of B. anthracis spore.ConclusionThe eastern corridor of Northern region is a Hots spot area. Policy makers can develop risk based surveillance system and focus on this area to mitigate anthrax outbreaks and reoccurrence.

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Mapping as a tool for predicting the risk of anthrax outbreaks in Northern Region of Ghana

Nsoh¹,

Kenu²,

Forson³

et al. 2016

Pan Afr Med J

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“…11 In Europe, the disease is rare; however, it reappears sporadically in areas where anthrax-succumbed animals have been buried or opened, or at former tanning or lane-processing industry sites. 1,11 The last bovine anthrax cases in Switzerland occurred in 1997 (canton of Schwyz) and 1993 (canton of Jura). 5 However, the 1993 Jurassian case occurred in another district than the case reported here.…”

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Bacillus anthracis as a cause of bovine abortion – a necropsy case requiring special biosafety measures

Dettwiler¹,

Mehinagic²,

Brawand³

et al. 2018

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In spring 2017, the first case of bovine anthrax in 20 years in Switzerland occurred in the canton of Jura. Carcasses of anthrax-deceased animals should not be opened due to the formation of highly resistant spores bearing the risk of environmental contamination and aerosolization. Nevertheless, in the course of this local outbreak, one sick cow from the affected farm, whose blood repeatedly tested negative for Bacillus anthracis, was necropsied after euthanasia under special biosafety precautions at the Institute of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse-Faculty Bern. Necropsy revealed ventral edema, fetal death, necro-hemorrhagic placentitis and necrotizing iliac lymphadenitis. Bacillus anthracis was isolated only from placenta and altered lymph node. The biosafety measures taken during and after necropsy prevented a contamination of the necropsy environment, which was proven with bacteriological swabs. This case shows that anthrax may elicit unspecific symptoms mimicking other diseases, and veterinarians must be aware of these non-septicemic cases.

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