In the middle of the Corona pandemic, a bad news comes from China in the North China Region, the bubonic plague has broken out. Here, too, the pathogen is transmitted from animals to humans. The authorities are now on alert.
In the Northern Chinese Region of Inner Mongolia was detected on Sunday at a shepherd the bubonic plague. The local health authorities have tightened then immediately the safety precautions. The shepherd was in stable condition and being treated in a hospital in Bayannur, informed the municipal health Commission.
No consumption of marble and rodents
The origin of the disease, marmots and rodents. Therefore, the local authorities until the end of the year, a ban on the Hunting and consumption of animals that can transmit the Virus.
In addition, the population of the Autonomous Region was asked to report dead or sick rodents. Infected rodents, in particular rats, can transmit the plague pathogen Yersinia pestis via fleas to humans.
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More suspected cases of bubonic plague in Mongolia
Also in the neighboring Mongolia, was discovered on Monday, a plague-suspected case. A 15-Year-old fever got, after he had eaten a woodchuck, how China’s state-run Xinhua news Agency reported.
Already last week had occurred, according to Xinhua, in the Mongolian province of Khovd two infections. In the case of the Diseased, it is, therefore, brothers, who had also eaten marmot meat. More than 140 of the contact persons had been quarantined.
Bubonic plague: it’s Always fatal, Proceeds in spite of treatment
Single cases of bubonic plague are reported from China. In November of last year, four cases of bubonic and pneumonic plague were in the North of China within one month of the registered. The local authorities were then widely poison against rats and fleas.
Although the plague can be treated, it is in China again and again deadly: According to the national health Commission, five people died between September 2014 and September 2019 at the disease.
In the last few years, there have been worldwide outbreaks of bubonic plague in India, Peru, Madagascar and in the Congo. According to the WHO, annually 1000 to 2000 cases are reported worldwide.
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