Indonesian village quarantined after anthrax case found

"Twenty people fell ill after eating an infected water buffalo on Friday. Wolotou village is now quarantined and no meat products from the village are allowed to be transferred out," said veterinary official Maria Geong.

In April, five people died after consuming infected beef on nearby Sumba island and health officials sealed off several villages there for several weeks to contain the disease.

Anthrax is an acute infection that usually only afflicts livestock but it can be transmitted to humans who handle or eat affected animals. Sealing off the village stops more people from being infected.