One dead and six in hospital after anthrax outbreak
THE STANDARD By Gilbert Kimutai | January 20th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Caracas of a cow that died following an outbreak of anthrax. [File, Standard] One person has died in what authorities say is a suspected case of anthrax outbreak in Bomet County. The disease was reported in Itoik village, Sotik Sub-county, at the weekend. Johnstone Kelong, a 60-year-old village elder who helped the community to dispose of the carcass of a cow, succumbed to the disease. Kelong died on Tuesday morning while undergoing treatment at Kaplong Mission Hospital where six others have been admitted in critical ...