LASG Warns Livestock Owners Against Charcoal Anthrax Disease

Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal has urged livestock owners, farmers, butchers, livestock sellers, and veterinarians in the State to be alert to any signs of Charcoal Anthrax in their livestock.

Lawal, disclosed this on Wednesday when he met with members of the Sheep and Goats Farmers Association in Lagos State to sensitize them on the reported outbreak of Charcoal Anthrax in sheep and cattle in the Republic of Niger.

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He urged them to report any unexplained sudden deaths in livestock to the Ministry of Agriculture or call 08023191180 or 08023427594 saying that the reports would help the State Government to carry out appropriate investigation.

The Charcoal Anthrax is an infectious zoonotic disease of livestock manifesting either on the skin as a scratch progressing into sepsis or as a pulmonary infection contracted by inhalation of the causative micro-organisms.

He added that the disease occurs directly or indirectly through contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products respectively in human beings, hence the need to take precautionary measures.

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