Nonthaburi, 4th August (TNA) - Thailand's Disease Control Department of China pointed out the epidemic of pneumonic plague, and coordination with the World Health Organization, although it was not the onset of the disease in Thailand for 57 years after a senior Health official.Mr. Somchai Chakrabhand, director general of the Department of Disease Control, said officials of public health, law enforcement in the field of communicable diseases, in response to the situation in the WHO says the deadly infectious diseases, such as global pandemic.
The response to the epidemic of pneumonic disease in China Ziketan of Qinghai province north-west, killing at least three people.
Currently, the city of more than 10,000 people have already closed and a team of medical experts was sent to the region.
Mr. Somchai said that the pneumonic plague was the bacterium "Yersinia pestis. Bacillus of the plague in the skin at the site of the bite and travels through the lymphatic system in the lymph nodes near.
This is, in general, from animals to humans through the bite of infected fleas, by direct contact, inhalation and rarely from food or drink food infected.
People infected with influenza often begin with similar symptoms after an incubation period of 3-7 days. Patients usually develop a sudden fever, chills, pain in the head and body and weakness, vomiting and nausea. Untreated patients die within 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of State for Public Health Dr Prat Boonyawongviroj added that the disease can be treated with antibiotics. Pneumonic plague in Thailand last pandemic in 1952.
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