00:00A mother in Santo Nino, Cagayan, suffered from anthrax.
00:05According to the Cagayan Provincial Health Office,
00:07on October 6, a farmer sold his calabaw,
00:11but when he woke up, it was already dead.
00:14Instead of burying it, he cut the calabaw and sold its meat.
00:19After a few days, the father followed the symptoms
00:23by cutting and eating the meat of the calabaw.
00:27He was hit by an electric shock.
00:29He became weak and had a black wound.
00:32He was hospitalized.
00:34The specimen was sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine or RITM
00:40to confirm if anthrax affected them.
00:43More than 100 residents who bought calabaw meat were also monitored.
00:47According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
00:50at the Department of Health,
00:52anthrax is a bacterial disease
00:54that usually affects animals such as calabaw.
00:57It can be transmitted to humans
00:59when they cut and eat meat of animals with anthrax.
01:02Anthrax can also be contagious
01:05if the spores of the bacteria that cause it
01:08have penetrated or entered the human wound.
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