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"<p>\n\tBangladesh Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas has said that the anthrax outbreak currently plaguing his nation is expected to be fully controlled prior to the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha holiday.<br />\n\t<br />\n\t&quot;It&#39;s already under control&hellip;no anthrax was detected since September 18 and we hope it will be fully controlled well ahead of Eid-ul-Azha,&quot; Biswas told reporters following a meeting with the Bangladesh Tanners Association, The Financial Express reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tBiswas also said that the nation&#39;s government would be compensating cattle owners who lost stock during the outbreak.<br />\n\t<br />\n\t&quot;We&#39;ll first calculate the number of the affected owners and then we&#39;ll compensate them after bringing anthrax under full control,&quot; Biswas said, The Financial Express reports.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tThe government, Biswas told reporters, has a sufficient stock of vaccines to fight further outbreaks and is monitoring the situation.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tAccording to Bangladesh officials, more than 500 people have now contracted anthrax from infected cattle. No human fatalities have been reported to date.<br />\n\t<br />\n\tRecently, a former health minister placed the blame on the nation&#39;s government for the outbreak, saying that the government failed to take action when the disease first appeared and then overreacted, causing panic among residents.<br />\n\t<br />\n\t&ldquo;It could be possible to control the disease quickly if the government created awareness among the people properly,&rdquo; former Health Minister Khandaker Mosharraf said, BDNews24.com reports.</p>\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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