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.