VIENTIANE (Xinhua): Laos' Ministry of Health has ordered health officials and local authorities across the South-East Asian country to be alert after 54 anthrax cases were reported in two districts in the southern Champasak province.
Local officials and health authorities have called for support and cooperation by residents in tracing sources of infection, collecting essential information, quarantining affected areas, and culling infected livestock, news website Lao Phattana News reported on Monday.
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