Bhubaneswar's Regional Medical Research Centre has started a study across 14 blocks in Odisha's Koraput for coordinated interventions to check animal-to-human transmission of anthrax. The study is likely to be completed by end of next year [2022]. It will test the effectiveness of public health interventions to check the disease transmission in Koraput, the epicentre of anthrax in Odisha. Of the 30 districts of Odisha, 19 are reported as endemic for human anthrax. In all 19 districts, anthrax was diagnosed among livestock. In 4 districts -- Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri, and Sundergarh -- human anthrax cases were reported. Among the 3 types of anthrax, the cutaneous form was most common across the state.
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