China announces danger regime due to plague outbreak: is there a threat of a new pandemic
The bubonic plague first appeared in Mongolia, and now in northern China. Local authorities warn that the disease is transmitted from person to person, writes DW.
Authorities in the Bayan Nur urban district in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China on Sunday, July 5, announced a regime of increased epidemiological danger due to a patient with symptoms of bubonic plague, who sought help from a local hospital.
Местные власти предупреждают о том, что это заболевание передается от человека к человеку и призывают не охотиться и не есть животных, которые могут стать его переносчиками — в частности, такими являются грызуны, например монгольские сурки.
In the Bayan-Nur district, the third (out of four possible) levels of the notification regime has been introduced, in which the issues of epidemiological safety of citizens are coordinated at the level of local authorities. The central government is connected only at the first, highest, level.
A Level 3 warning that prohibits the hunting and eating of animals that may carry the plague and encourages the public to report suspicious cases was put in place before the end of the year, writes Air force.
Earlier reports of the bubonic plague in western Mongolia were reported. In the region where two cases of the disease were registered, quarantine was introduced, the entry of vehicles into the region, as well as the exit, were temporarily suspended.
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What is the bubonic plague?
Бубонная чума, вызванная бактериальной инфекцией, стала причиной одной из самых смертоносных эпидемий в истории человечества — Черной смерти — в XIV веке погибло около 50 миллионов человек в Африке, Азии и Европе.
Since then there have been several major outbreaks. During the Great Plague of 1665, about a fifth of the population of London died, and more than 12 million people died in outbreaks in the XNUMXth century in China and India.
But these days, plague can be treated with antibiotics. If untreated, the disease, which is usually transmitted from animals to a person with fleas, has a mortality rate of 30-60%.
Симптомы чумы включают высокую температуру, озноб, тошноту, слабость и опухшие лимфатические узлы. Болезненное воспаление лимфатических узлов характеризуется образованием «бубонов», чаще всего — паховых, реже — подмышечных. С момента появлением антибиотиков выздоравливают практически все больные чумой, если лечение начато своевременно.
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Could there be another epidemic?
Cases of bubonic plague are rare, but outbreaks of the disease still occur from time to time.
In Madagascar, more than 300 cases were reported during the outbreak in 2017. However, a study in the medical journal The Lancet found that less than 30 people died.
В мае прошлого года два человека в Монголии умерли от чумы, которой они заразились после употребления в пищу сырого мяса сурка — того же типа грызунов, с которым столкнулись во втором подозреваемом случае.
However, it is unlikely that any cases will lead to an epidemic.
«В отличие от XIV века, у нас теперь есть понимание того, как передается это заболевание, — сказал доктор Шанти Каппагода, инфекционист из Стэнфордского центра здравоохранения, на новостном сайте Heathline. — Мы знаем, как это предотвратить. Мы также можем лечить пациентов эффективными антибиотиками».
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