Pest pneumonic rockt China

Pneumonic disease spreads in north-west of China. A man is already dead, 11 were infected and thousands of others are uarantine.

32 years, a farmer in Ziketan, a Tibetan region of Qinghai province, died of pneumonic plague. The other 11 people are members of the meat and the peasants are in a stable condition in hospital. More than 10,000 others who live in the area Ziketan, which covers about 1,000 square meters, have been quarantined and a team of medical experts in the region.

Pneumonic deadly disease is high and doea antibiotics in most cases. This is an airborne bacteria, characterized by coughing and sneezing. He died as bubonic plague, 25 million people in Europe, the Middle Ages
2 dead in September 2008, were a couple on pneumonic plague after the Ministry of Health of China.

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China stresses blockade on pest Hit City

While the negative effects of time constraints against chaos in the south, a deadly virus hit in the north. In Qinghai Province, local authorities have finally succeeded in their efforts to combat an outbreak of pneumonic disease. On Saturday the quarantine was lifted the blockade around the city by the disease. N. new infections have been for over a week.

The disease previously killed three villagers in the district of Landkreis Ziketan in Xinghai. The outbreak began on 30 July 12, when the person in the city, was ill. The nine survivors are in stable condition and restoration. Another 332 people who have close links with patients are now in their forties. Medical staff are disinfecting the area and its efforts to monitor new outbreaks.

Pneumonic plague is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world. Patients dying within 24 hours after infection. Millions have been killed by the disease each year, before the establishment of new China in 1949, but had only one or two cases over the past three years and the number of deaths has decreased significantly.

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China end of the quarantine pest risk

China has completed the quarantine block, July 30, Reuters quoted by Xinhua News Agency pneumonic outbreak of a disease that killed three villagers in a town in China's Tibetan region in Qinghai province's mountainous region the north-west.

In the absence of new cases of disease with a high last week, the epidemic seems to be the city with a population of 10,000, the authorities of the withdrawal of the block.

Fever, infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, both for animals and humans is largely of rodents and fleas spread from person to person. Occasionally there are sporadic outbreaks of the disease peumonic China.

The bacteria can survive for about an hour in the air spreads easily, which is a serious disease that can kill 30 to 60% of patients, if not.

Pneumonic plague is a form of plague occurs when Y. pestis infects the lungs, and from person to person through the air.

The other is the bubonic plague, the most common occurs when a chip bites an infected person, or Y. pestis occurs through a break of a person's skin.

The third said septicemic plague, which were not from person to person occurs when plague bacteria proliferate in the blood, such as fever, chills, fatigue, pain, shock and bleeding into skin and other organisms.

Pest pneumonic symptoms are fever, headache, weakness, symptoms of pneumonia, including shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, bloody sputum, or tears. Pneumonia can be 2 to 4 days, they have respiratory failure and shock, and is not treated quickly with antibiotics such as streptomycin, gentamicin, tetracycline or chloramphenicol, ie within 24 hours of symptoms, can lead to death.

The World Health Organization said pneumonic plague is the most serious, although less common form of plague.

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Plague in China ... What is it? What resulted?

Since Chinese is the plague of messages, and because the source, if not the disease itself, is a common - is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on parasites.

There are three forms of plague, in conjunction with the same source, the rodents and fleas. More people suffer from some form of plague in the same time.

This bacteria is destroyed by:

• Sunlight

• Drying.

Early treatment

• within 24 hours of symptoms - is essential to avoid death.

• Antibiotic treatment for a period of seven days.

• No vaccine against the plague in the United States, said this type of information.

"Plague is a disease, the effects on animals and humans. E 'by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This bacterium is in rodents and fleas, which occurs in many areas of the world, including United States Kingdom.

"Y. pestis is easily destroyed by sunlight and drying. Similarly, if the air, the bacteria to survive up to one hour, although depending on conditions.

"Pneumonic plague is one of several forms of plague. In some cases, these forms may occur singly or in combination: (emphasis added)

"Pneumonic plague occurs when Y. pestis infects the lungs. This type of disease can be from person to person through the air. Transmission can occur if someone breathes in aerosol bacteria, which could reach a bioterrorist attack. Pneumonic plague is spread by inhalation of Y. pestis exhibited respiratory droplets from a person (or animal) with pneumonic plague. become infected in this way, usually a close and direct contact with the sick person or animal. pneumonic disease can also occur when a person with bubonic or septicemic plague is not, and bacteria in the lungs.

"Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague. This error occurs if a chip bites an infected person, or on materials that provide Y. pestis from a break in a person, the skin. Patients develop swollen, the use of lymph nodes (called bubo) and fever, headache, chills and weakness. spread of bubonic plague is not a man to man.

"Plague septicemic plague occurs when bacteria proliferate in the blood. It may be a complication of pneumonic or bubonic plague or it may be, of himself. When there is only, is the same as the bubonic plague, but not to develop bubo. Patients have fever, chills, fatigue, pain, shock and bleeding into skin and other organs. septicemic disease is not yet man.

Symptoms and treatment
"With pneumonic plague, the first signs of the disease are fever, headache, weakness, and the rapid development of pneumonia, shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and sometimes bloody or watery sputum. The pneumonia progresses for 2 to 4 days and may be in respiratory arrest and shock. Without early treatment, the patient may die.

"Early treatment of pneumonic plague is essential. To reduce the possibility of death, antibiotics must be within 24 hours after the first symptoms. Streptomycin, gentamicin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol and are effective against pneumonic plague.

"Antibiotics 7 days of treatment to protect people, the direct, close contact with infected patients. Wearing a tight fitting mask operational protects against infection.

"A vaccine against plague is not currently available for use in the United States."

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Three people died and nine others have been infected during the "pneumonic plague" Ausbruch

Three people died and nine others have been infected during the epidemic began July 30 Ziketan, an agricultural town of about 10,000 people in the province of Qinghai, north-west.

Quarantine, seems to have access to the death of a pastor of 32 years, sick of burying his dog, and two of its neighbors. Nine other members of the meat was infected, but are treated with antibiotics.

Pneumonic plague, which is characterized by the same bacteria as bubonic plague, the millions of deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages, transmitted through the air and the World Health Organization that the most deadly

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