China: pneumonic illness "real" control

China's against pneumonic plague in the province of Qinghai, north-west, are effective and the disease can not expect the center of the epidemic, the experts of the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.

Health authorities in Qinghai Province responded immediately to the plague and found the chain of transmission of the disease in a short period of time, which is the key to effective control, "said Professor Liang Wannian, deputy director of the Ministry of Health emergency, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Hainan on Wednesday.

The local government has closed 3500 km ² around the center Ziketan Township, with a population of 10,000, and 23 quarantine stations for the overtime.

"There is no reason to worry about infection, Qinghai when you travel, not to mention panic," said Liang.

N. other infections have been, except for 12 patients in Ziketan, quarantine, July 31, three of whom died, and was in critical condition, as Tuesday, Fukui said Dong, head of the government, Hainan Prefecture Ziketan manages.

The quarantine of patients, members of the first death of patients and doctors, Dong said.

Another Xinhua report shows quarter of the patient is near death and the other is in serious condition.

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