Anthrax: In Spain the situation is under control, hardly any cases or outbreaks

2024-09-20 08:54:30

We live with all kinds bacteria, fungi and virusesis normal (and even good, microbiota rules), although during the last years the burden we have in them, also normal, has benefited by what can be called pharmaceutical sector. The other day I read news story about anthrax in Spain.

Him anthrax or anthrax It is a zoonosis, a disease or infection that spreads from animals to humans, caused in this case by bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Although it is a disease of herbivores (mainly carnivores). People, therefore, can be an accidental host.

This information says that during the year 2023 you will be notified only anthrax case in our country, in Teruel; 32-year-old woman, a-farmer in contact with farm.

That is to say, anthrax is almost known in Spain, the rate of disease notification is less than 0.01and no outbreaks have been reported in 2023. Since 2015, the number of reported cases has been less than 4 per year.

It is also true that not all cases are reported, I imagine that in this area it happens as with those drug damagethat’s just it 2% are notified to health authoritiesmaking it almost impossible to know the reality of these side effects.

The area with the most cases is the one with the most livestock, Extremadura. In 2021, an outbreak, the only one in existence, involved 5 cases. In Spain no deaths have been recorded for this disease in the last year.

Anthrax in Europe

In our country everything is managed in this way. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in December 2023 that a high risk of spreading anthrax outbreaks announced in Zambia. Come at least four deaths and 684 confirmed cases suspicious.

There were, always according to the WHO, a ‘highest risk’ of crossing borders for the frequent movements of animals and people. It is not so or we would have seen it, but well, it is a well-known trend to fan the fear of any worldwide. Plague.

It is good to know that in Spain there is control because of internal issues person has increased to unprecedented numbers in that African state.

And that means that for today’s global flows of people, it can always happen that the disease “arrives” (we have already said that in fact. is already with us).

Letters with anthrax on 9/11

The fear of different epidemics or epidemics that threaten the health of mankind has become a weapon. What happened to those who are called mad cow? How many people died from bird disease when the World Health Organization estimated that 150,000,000 people died? What happened to them hold A? One day we will know again the truth about Covid-19…

Do you remember the panic that occurred after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States because of the possibility of “terrorist attack” with anthrax?

In the weeks that followed, fears spread around the world about the possibility of new attacks that this time would be amplified by the anthrax virus, also known as of the battlefield. The deaths of three people in the month of October helped the oil global burden.

At a critical time for humanity, the authorities have Bayer They also killed them with their hands. In those days, the German multinational owned the patent for the Antibiotics Ciprobaymore than effective against anthrax.

The US government needs 1.2 billion drugs but Bayer can only make 60 million each month. Faced with the urgency of different administrations, the Government of Canada and the Democratic Party of the United States proposed bypass Bayer patent and giving other companies to produce it Ciprobay generic. Bayer threatened to sue the Canadian government and dragged this important battle to reduced the price of the Ciprobay box from €330 for 60 units to €90.

So we have to pay attention to that nothing happened with anthraxbut let us know epidemic season that at any moment the vibration goes away (false or not, interested or not). And that is what inspired me to read the news above.