Plague

Many Chinese people are now on high alert after a few locals in Inner Mongolia have reportedly contracted the plague and as the rat population in the region is said to be out of control. According to official Chinese state media reports, at least four people have been diagnosed with the plague. The first patient, from northwest China’s Gansu Province, died in September from bubonic plague . A husband and wife from Inner Mongolia were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague and both are receiving treatment at a hospital in Beijing. The fourth patient, also from Inner Mongolia, contracted the bubonic plague after he consumed a wild hare on Nov. 5—he is also being treated in Beijing. However, netizens suspect that Chinese authorities are covering up more cases of the plague even though they have reportedly taken precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Bubonic plague is mainly spread by infected fleas from small animals and rodents such as rats , prairie dogs and har...

Chinese officials have sprayed almost 200 acres of land with poison as part of a rat and flea eradication campaign after a case of bubonic plague was reported in a northern region. The Ulanqab government in central Inner Mongolia said it carried the spraying last week, while another local authority posted images of cadres dressed in white scrubs and face masks and said they dispatched planes to spray poison as part of "rat- and flea-extermination work". The plague germ Yersinia pestis can be transmitted to humans from infected rats via fleas and the reported case has spurred efforts across the region to kill pests. Earlier this month two patients from the same region were diagnosed with the highly-contagious pneumonic strain of the plague and moved to Beijing for treatment. The pneumonic strain an prove fatal in 24 to 72 hours and is the "most virulent form" of the disease according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), while the bubonic form is less danger...

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spawns/iStock (NEW YORK) — A child in Idaho contracted the plague last year, leaving many wondering how the plague exists in the 21st century. The disease dates back to the Middle Ages, when it killed millions in a Europe, before the age of antibiotics. At the time, they did not realize the plague was carried by the fleas who lived on rats. Although the idea of the plague sounds dire, another “black death” is not coming. The plague, in spite of its lethal reputation, is not uncommon in the U.S. and it is usually no longer a death sentence. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the plague was first introduced in the U.S. in 1900 by rat-infested steamships. It is most common in the western U.S. What is the plague? The plague is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which is transmitted by fleas. Infected fleas spread the infection to animals, commonly mice, squirrels, prairie dogs and even cats and dogs. Humans get the plague through direct contact with...

All people in close contacts with two pneumonic plague patients in Beijing were released from medical observation at 8am on Thursday, said the Beijing Municipal Health Commission. The two patients from Xilingol League in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, who were diagnosed with pneumonic plague in Beijing last week, are in critical condition, the commission said. Local authorities have organized medical experts, optimized the treatment plans and used both Western and traditional Chinese medicine to save their lives.   https://ift.tt/2OLeqUi

CREDIT: National Institue of Allergy Infectious Diseases × A hunter ate a wild rabbit and caught black plague CREDIT: National Institue of Allergy Infectious Diseases Twenty-eight people are in quarantine in China’s northern Inner Mongolia province after a hunter was diagnosed with bubonic plague Saturday, the local health commission said. According to state-run news agency Xinhua, the unidentified patient was believed to have become infected with the plague after catching and eating a wild rabbit in Inner Mongolia’s Huade county. Bubonic plague is the more common version of the disease and is rarely transmitted between humans. The case comes after the Chinese government announced on November 12 that two people were being treated for the pneumonic plague in the capital of Beijing — the same strand that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Pneumonic plague is the most virulent and deadly strain of the disease. It originate...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported a third case of bubonic plague on Sunday after two other plague cases were revealed last week, but the disease remains rare despite its fearsome reputation and authorities say the cases appear unrelated. HOW DOES INFECTION OCCUR? Two patients from Inner Mongolia were quarantined in Beijing suffering from pneumonic plague, authorities said last week. A 55-year old man from the same region was later diagnosed with bubonic plague after eating wild rabbit meat, the health commission said. Both types of plague are caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection, but the pneumonic variant - where the bacterium is breathed into the lungs - is more dangerous because it is spread through coughing. A rarer third variant of the diseases is septicaemic plague, which infects the bloodstream. WHAT ARE THE RISKS? Plague has killed tens of millions of people around the world in three maj...

It’s finally November here in Charlottesville, and we all know what that means. Students crowd together in libraries before finals like chickens in a factory farm awaiting slaughter, first-years walk a mile to frats in freezing cold weather without jackets (it’ll ruin the ‘fit) and nobody has used hand sanitizer since their mom stopped stuffing it in their backpack. These factors combine to create the ideal conditions for the most sinister of all diseases to flourish — the first-year plague. Most years, it isn’t a problem. It affects a few thousand of us nobodies and we go to Student Health, only to be told to make like a straw and suck it up. But this year, it has grown more powerful than ever before, and a celebrity has been caught in its malicious grasp. The first-year plague has infected our Lord and Savior Ariana Grande. Grande has become somewhat of a patron saint of Charlottesville thanks to her charitable contributions over the years. After the white supremacist rally of 201...

The mere mention of the word “plague” conjures up some ghastly images, even among the most hardened of infectious disease specialists. After all, it’s not every communicable disease that earns the moniker “Black Death.” So, it’s no surprise that news from China last week regarding 2 new confirmed cases of pneumonic plague—the most deadly of the 3 known forms of the disease, along with bubonic and septicemic, caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis —has generated global headlines . “Cases [of the plague] continue to occur around the world, and there are some hotspots,” Ashok Kumar Chopra, CSc, PhD, professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and member, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, told Contagion ®. “When they occur of course people get worried about it because they are aware of how dangerous it can be.” Of course, this is hardly the first outbreak of pneumonic plague since the disease ravaged the global populatio...

Share on Pinterest Bubonic plague was found in China. Getty Images An outbreak of the bubonic plague in China has led to worry that the “Black Death” could make a significant return. At least three people in China have been diagnosed with the disease. But experts say the disease is not nearly as deadly as it was thanks to antibiotics. This past Saturday, a hunter in China was diagnosed with bubonic plague after catching and eating a wild rabbit. Twenty-eight people who had been in close contact with the hunter are now in quarantine, according to the local health commission . The plague diagnosis comes about a week after the Chinese government announced two other people had contracted pneumonic plague in Beijing — the infamous plague that triggered the Black Death, which wiped out millions of people in Europe in the 14th century. With words like bubonic plague and Black Death circulating in our headlines, some may wonder if the plague is coming for the United States next — ...

A Chinese hunter in Mongolia caught the bubonic plague after eating a rabbit he killed. A Chinese investigation, reported on by state media Xinhua , determined the man had eaten the rabbit on November 5. Since then, 28 people in close proximity to the infected have been placed under quarantine to prevent the disease from spreading.  Plague is an infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria and transmitted by fleas. Plague comes in three variants —  bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic.  The plague, also called " The Black Death " was responsible for around 25 million European deaths during the 14th century .  The hunter represents the third confirmed case in China in two weeks.  While Chinese officials have released statements assuring the public that the risk of an outbreak is "extremely low," some citizens have voiced concern over the legitimacy of those statements. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories . Chinese officials confirmed yet another...

In the past week, Chinese health officials have confirmed three cases of the plague – one bubonic, two pneumonic. While the latest case saw a man from Inner Mongolia contract bubonic plague – which wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century – experts are more concerned about the pneumonic plague. This is because the latter is “substantially more fatal” and much more contagious. Bubonic plague sees swelling of the lymph nodes throughout the body. However, pneumonic plague infects the lungs, making the disease airborne and much easier to transfer. Paul Hunter, Professor of Health Protection at the University of East Anglia, told Express.co.uk: “The worrying thing about the Chinese cases is that two are pneumonic plague. If you’re bitten by a flea, typically you’ll get bubonic plague where it is in the lymph nodes and they swell and then discharge. “In pneumonic plague it goes to the lungs and then you start coughing it up. “And the scary thing about pneumonic plague is that it ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Inner Mongolia reported a fresh, confirmed case of bubonic plague on Sunday, despite an earlier declaration by the country's health officials that the risk of an outbreak was minimal. The health commission of the autonomous region said a 55-year-old man was diagnosed with the disease after he ate wild rabbit meat on 5 November. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague globally and can advance and spread to the lungs, which is a more severe type called pneumonic plague, according to the World Health Organization. The Inner Mongolia case follows two that were confirmed earlier this month in Beijing. In both cases, the two patients from Inner Mongolia were quarantined at a facility in the capital after being diagnosed with pneumonic plague, health authorities said at the time. The Inner Mongolia health commission said it found no evidence so far to link the most recent case to the earlier two cases in Beijing. The patient in Inner Mongol...

In this Wednesday, March 26, 2014 photo, some of the skeletons found by construction workers under central London’s Charterhouse Square are pictured. Archaeologists immediately suspected the bones came from a cemetery for victims of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 14th century. Image: via AP The bubonic plague, infamously responsible for the deaths of millions of 14th century Europeans and a very upsetting portion of Madame Tussaud’s “Spirit of London” ride, likes to pop up every now and then to remind us that life is fleeting and rodents are lethal. And once again, it’s back! According to Smithsonian Magazine, this month three cases of the bubonic plague were confirmed in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China. Two patients, a husband and wife, were transported to Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing for treatment in early November, though their diagnoses were not announced until November 12; the third patient, a 55-year-old man, was diagnosed on November 1...

He was quarantined after the diagnosis, along with 28 people who he came into contact with. The other 28 people have showed no signs or symptoms of the plague. Between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases of plague worldwide. The disease caused to 584 deaths - a fatality rate of 18 percent, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). https://ift.tt/2s0n6hN

I was enticed by Spectrum Mobile's unlimited data plan offer for Spectrum customers—what a mistake. I placed the order on Nov. 6, after having to go through the whole order process three times; apparently they were having computer problems on their end. (The process was time-consuming each time, because I was moving three lines from my old phone service, and getting three new phones.) Then I waited for several days, and nothing arrived; when I called them, it turned out there was some glitch with my order, though I hadn't gotten any e-mail from them alerting me to it. Finally, on Nov. 15 the phone was scheduled to be delivered; it took me until yesterday (Nov. 18) to get it because someone had to sign for it, and FedEx just missed us Friday and Saturday (not Spectrum Mobile's fault on that). I got my new Google Pixel 3a configured yesterday evening. This morning, the phone touch screen stops working—the phone is on, and even gets phone calls, but I can't do anything w...

According to Chinese officials, doctors have recently diagnosed a third case of bubonic plague in a month. Although the plague is life threatening, it is treatable. The latest outbreak should not inspire panic. Share on Pinterest Plague is transmissable via fleas infected with Y. pestis. The most recent case concerns a 55-year-old male who appears to have caught the plague from a wild rabbit that he had killed and eaten. This occurred in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The local health agency have published a press release explaining that the male — from Xilingol League — is receiving treatment, and that 28 people who had been in close contact with him are in quarantine. At this stage, these people have not exhibited any symptoms. This case follows two others that Chinese officials made public on November 12, 2019. These cases also occurred in Xilingol League. Bubonic plague, which the bacterium Yersinia pestis causes, is infamous due to historical pandemics. Today, howev...

With the year coming to a close, I’ve been reading up on all the new wellness trends to set a good example for my Eighva. How can she grow up to be a big, strong girlboss without a strong female role model encouraging her to take charge of her personal wellness, lean in, and nevertheless persist? Anyway, as we enter the new decade, there are a bunch of trends that we should leave behind, according to Yahoo! Lifestyle , like keto and CBD. (Bad news for those 12 pairs of CBD leggings I just bought!) And some things we’re picking up, like plague, which I know sounds unusual, but it’s starting to become a thing, per CNN ! An unidentified hunter in China’s northern Inner Mongolia province was diagnosed with bubonic plague this weekend, and nearly 30 people have been quarantined. This news comes only a week after two people were reported to have gotten the plague’s pneumonic varietal. Sure, the people who contracted this and were quarantined did so unwillingly, but I wouldn't be the ...

CLOSE A Chinese hunter catches the bubonic plague after eating a wild rabbit. Buzz60 A case of bubonic plague, the disease linked to the Black Death, was reported Sunday in China. The patient hunted and ate a wild rabbit Nov. 5, which might have caused the plague, per Chinese state media Xinhua . The individual is from Xilingol in Inner Mongolia. The person was not identified by Chinese officials. An additional 28 people found to be in contact with the patient were put in medical quarantine out of precaution by the local health commission. None of them have shown symptoms of the plague yet. This comes after the case of two people diagnosed with pneumonic plague in Xilingol last week. They have since received “proper treatment” at Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing. They've been treated: 2 people in China infected with plague, the disease tied to Black Death Authorities state that there is no connection between these two cases. A Mongolian couple died earlier...

A hunter who killed and ate a wild rabbit on the Mongolian steppe contracted bubonic plague, Chinese health officials said Monday, days after two other people from the same region were diagnosed with an even deadlier strain of the disease. The hunter, a 55-year-old man in China's Inner Mongolia, contracted the disease on Nov. 5 and came into contact with 28 people who were subsequently quarantined, Chinese officials said, according to the Associated Press. None of them have shown signs of a fever or other symptoms, the AP reported. The diagnosis comes amid tension in Beijing after two people there were confirmed to have pneumonic plague, prompting concern that health officials waited to disclose the diagnosis of plague's deadliest, exclusively contagious form. Chinese officials said the risk of spreading the disease was "extremely low." The AP reported those two people are from Xilingol League, a rural grassland region southeast of the country of Mongolia. A doc...