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    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    April 30 2004

    Armenian villager contracts anthrax


    YEREVAN, April 30 (Itar-Tass) - A case of anthrax has been
    registered in Armenia, the republic's chief state sanitary doctor
    Vladimir Davidyants said.

    Arutyun Khachatrian, 41, contracted the skin variant of the disease
    while butchering a dead cow in the village of Aigabats, Shirak
    region.

    Doctors in the hospital in the regional administrative centre of
    Gyumry, former Leninakan, where the patient is undergoing a course of
    treatment see his condition as satisfactory.

    Anthrax killed nearly 40 heads of cattle in the village of Aigabats
    in the middle of April. According to preliminary data, the animals
    had contracted the diseases as a result of injection of non-standard
    vaccine made in Armenia.

    The hotbed of disease has been localized, said an official at the
    Chief veterinary inspectorate of Armenia.
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