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 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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We are losing the war against the error?

Pneumonic swine influenza Pest - with E. coli in the mix - microbes, securities. I get more for us?

If you eat meat or necrotizing fasciitis morbillivirus horses at the end of the sentence, in essence, drown in the liquid pulmonary infections - whether viral or bacterial infection - the imagination of a way that every day more like cancer and heart disease can not.

In fact, our struggle, of bacteria, the death and depletion of centuries, which has proved a formidable adversary may be.

It was about three billion years more, we have, and are sent to change and adapt to circumstances.

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Facts about pneumonic plague

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

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. Depending on the circumstances, these forms may occur singly or in combination:


Pneumonic plague occurs when Y. pestis infects the lungs. This type of disease can be from person to person through the air. The transmission can occur if someone breathes in aerosol bacteria, which could happen in a bioterrorist attack. Pneumonic plague is spread by inhalation of Y. pestis exposed respiratory droplets from a person (or animal) with pneumonic plague. To 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, Y. pestis make a pause of a person's skin. Patients develop swollen, tender 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. This can be a complication of pneumonic or bubonic plague or it may be, of himself. Occurs only if, it's the same way as bubonic plague, but do not 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, with breathing and shock. Without early treatment, the patient may die.

7 days of treatment with antibiotics 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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Thailand on alert after the outbreak of pneumonic plague in China

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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Looking more closely at how the plague, and that

A view of the plague, which killed two pneumonic in China:

Pneumonic plague is the fighting and less common form of the disease. The patients, 24 hours after infection.

Plague is a disease of animals, circulating, particularly in small animals such as rats and mice, but the bacteria can infect humans.

Since 2001, the World Health Organization reports about six plague, but some may not, as so often in remote areas.

Between 1998 and 2008 nearly 24,000 cases were reported, of which almost 2,000 deaths.

Plague can be treated effectively with antibiotics, but not if it can kill up to 60% of the population is infected.

People are infected when bitten by plague, the fleas, if they come into contact with infected surfaces or inhaler, if the bacteria.

People infected with the virus fever, usually experience flu-like symptoms such as fever, chills, muscle aches, vomiting and nausea after an incubation period of 3-7 days.

Pneumonic disease may directly between people, because the air by bacteria and can be inhaled by those in close contact with infected patients.

With the rule of origin, quarantine and isolation.

The most common is the plague, bubonic plague, also known as "Black Death", has swept across Europe, which has killed millions of people in 14 st century.

The disease has never been removed and continues to cause young people in Africa, Russia, America and Asia.

The causes of the rule of a few thousand cases per year, mostly in people in close contact with rodents, as the hunters. More than 98% of the world's are in Africa.

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Pneumonic Plague - How Scary?

Pneumonic disease was in a city of 10,000 people in China, and the whole town was quarantined. Broadcast, where the disease is and how deadly?

Pneumonic plague by bacteria, such as bubonic plague, but it is fatal (scientists say "aggressive"), the bubonic plague, that is, it kills people is much faster.

This is a plus and minus characters. Killing people faster than bubonic plague, which limits the speed with which they may be different from person to person as possible.

Unlike bubonic plague, fleas, the pneumonic plague in humans to humans through contact with coughing or sneezing. It is unclear, as many load and in what period it is necessary for a person inhaling aerosol droplets rather by the bacterium.

Some patients die within 24 hours if not treated, and inhalation of symptoms such as colds. If antibiotics are the first symptoms appear, the survival rate is very high.

Without treatment, mortality is close to 100% - is that, until recently, when all the survivors without antibiotics. Some animals in China are carriers of bacteria, and humans are infected and killed when the skin of infected animals, probably some bacteria are inhaled aerosol.

Surprisingly, the bacterium is destroyed by sunlight and drying, although a release into the air, the CDC says that the survival of one hour of waiting.

China pneumonic disease? So far, only three people were infected, and people living in the city in their homes, and the city was quarantined.

Those measures are very effective in combating the disease. In the U.S., the doubts, the quarantine laws in many countries, including the extension of rights to privacy.

If the plague were in a large urban area in the United States, it is very difficult, the spread in an emergency. China has a good opportunity to control the epidemic.

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12 pneumonic plague in NW China (Xinhua)

12 NW pneumonic plague in China

Starting from 8:00 am Tuesday, 12 cases of plague has been confirmed pneumonic Xinghai County of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's north-west's Qinghai Province.

Cases, three deaths, one close to death and serious in the state. The others are stable. The local government has closed and quarantined Ziketan of the city, the source of the epidemic. Province and health authorities are using a team of experts in the field. N. Reports of new infections.

"Now, the material provided in the infected area are stable. The man is calm and social order is normal, which means that our actions are safe, orderly and efficient."

Currently there are 218 people quarantined in a hospital, and 115 of them were in close contact with infected people. Local authorities have their hands more than 40,000 flyers and records for the prevention of plague.

Pneumonic plague is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases in the world and can kill patients within 24 hours after infection, the World Health Organization.

Xinhua News Agency reports Xi'ning. (XHTV)

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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.

pneumonic plague news.

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What is Lung plague (Pneumonic Plague ICD9 020.5) ?

Lung plague (Pneumonic Plague ICD9 020.5)



Diagnosis :
pneumonia from bacterial or other Pneumococci.

Cause:
Yersinia pestis.

The laboratory diagnosis:
Be careful about storage security tint g sputum culture and food culture in general.

Incubation:
about 2-3 days.

Transmission:
the droplet spread easily from walking and breathing things that just new pathogen contamination.

Incidence:
a complication of bubonic plague symptoms, lymph node (See plague lymph node) or may be infected first.

Treatment:
drugs with streptomycin tetracycline or chloramphenicol.

Control:
Separation patients retain more stringent.

The disease experience:
7 days to retain a separate search and chemical protection.
(Including public officials) World Health Organization report.
(A disease to international health reporting rules the year 2005 edition)

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