11-02-2010
NTA Anthrax Update with Templates and Advice for Drugs Workers
"The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS Blackpool have confirmed yesterday that the death of an injecting heroin user in Blackpool was the result of anthrax.
This is the second case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England, the first announced in London on 5 February. Since December 2009, there have been twenty one anthrax cases, including nine deaths, among both heroin injectors and smokers in Scotland. Similarities to the cases in Scotland and another death in Germany suggest that the heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the heroin, is the likely source of anthrax infection among English IDUs."
View the templates, advice and full information at:
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/
This is the second case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England, the first announced in London on 5 February. Since December 2009, there have been twenty one anthrax cases, including nine deaths, among both heroin injectors and smokers in Scotland. Similarities to the cases in Scotland and another death in Germany suggest that the heroin, or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with the heroin, is the likely source of anthrax infection among English IDUs."
View the templates, advice and full information at:
http://www.nta.nhs.uk/
