"Turkish village quarantined after anthrax outbreak
ANKARA - Turkish authorities quarantined a village in the southeast of the country Tuesday after eight villagers were diagnosed with anthrax, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The outbreak was discovered when one of those taken ill, from the village of Cukurca, was taken to hospital in Bingol province.
Health authorities identified seven other infected people in a subsequent check in the village.
Two of those, a brother and a sister aged 10 and nine respectively, were in a life-threatening situation, the doctor treating them told Anatolia.
Officials immediately imposed a ban on animals leaving or entering the village and began to destroy all the meat found in households, the report said.
Mehmet Bayiltmis, the father of the sick children, told the agency that up to 85 sheep and goats had died in the past week and a vet called to the village declared there was nothing to worry about."
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