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.
China: Tibetan cause pneumonic plague distance of the city seal
According to the Chinese, Tibetan Ziketan city in north-west, China was closed after three people died of pneumonic plague. The highly contagious pulmonary disease has infected eight others in the same city.
Health Bureau of Qinghai Province, said one of 32 years, pastors and a neighbor who is 37 years in Ziketan, a city of 10,000 Tibetans who lost their lives. A doctor at a nearby hospital, where patients are treated, said a third victim, 64, died Monday at about 6:40.
The Chinese authorities have reported that most infected patients are in stable condition, but Wen Xin, a doctor at the clinic of Xinghai County in the Tibetan province of Qinghai, said the wife of the pastor is in serious condition and coughing blood . He said another 13 people quarantined in a hospital for observation.
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)
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.
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.
