Rosselkhoznadzor (Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance)

The press service of the Department of Rospotrebnadzor for the Chuvash Republic revealed the source of infection of two people with anthrax. According to the regional department, the cause of infection was contact with raw meat when butchering a bull carcass.

Rosselkhoznadzor specialists have identified a batch of frozen salmon fish of unknown origin, which they tried to import into Russia across the border with Belarus under the guise of products from the Faroe Islands. Yulia Melano, adviser to the head of the department, told reporters about this.