Heroin addicts warned as second user dies following positive anthrax test

Heroin addicts were warned about injecting the drug yesterday as a second user died after a positive anthrax test.
The man was being treated at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Last week a man with the deadly animal infection died in the city's Victoria Infirmary, where a woman who has also tested positive for anthrax is being treated.
Another drug user has also died - though anthrax has not yet been confirmed - while a fourth case has hit an injecting addict in Monklands District General, Lanarkshire.

Public health consultant Dr Syed Ahmed said: "I urge all injecting users to be alert and to seek medical advice if they experience an infection.

"A batch of heroin possibly contaminated with anthrax makes injecting even riskier."

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