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2 Admitted To Beijing Hospital With Deadly Pneumonic Plague Amid Health Scare @ 2019-11-15T04: 返回 新闻热点
关键词:in China
概念:
IN 2014, A MAN DIED OF THE PLAGUE IN NORTHWESTERN GANSU PROVINCE IN CHINA AND SPARKED THE QUARANTINE OF 151 PEOPLE.
OTHER USERS COMPLAINED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE ANNOUNCED THE OUTBREAK SOONER (THE PATIENTS REPORTEDLY SOUGHT TREATMENT ON NOVEMBER 3) AND WITH GREATER TRANSPARENCY. MEANWHILE, CHINESE CENSORS TOLD ONLINE NEWS AGGREGATORS IN THE COUNTRY TO “BLOCK AND CONTROL” DISCUSSION OF THE PLAGUE, THE TIMES REPORTED, ADDING THAT CHINA HAS A HISTORY OF COVERING UP INFECTIOUS OUTBREAKS. (THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS TIGHT REINS ON THE PRESS, AND MEDIA CENSORSHIP COULD BE A WILD CARD IN HOW A DISEASE SPREADS OR DOESN’T.)
ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT WEBSITE OF CHAOYANG DISTRICT IN BEIJING, TWO PATIENTS FROM NORTH CHINA"S INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION WERE DIAGNOSED WITH PNEUMONIC PLAGUE, WHICH DOCTORS IN BEIJING CONFIRMED TUESDAY.
A PERSON IS INFECTED WITH BUBONIC OR SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE USUALLY VIA INFECTED FLEA BITE OR HANDLING INFECTED MEAT. EITHER FORM OF PLAGUE CAN DEVELOP INTO PNEUMONIC PLAGUE IF THEY GO UNTREATED AND SPREAD TO THE LUNGS, THE CDC SAYS.
EVERYONE KNOWS THE BLACK DEATH, BUT IT WAS JUST THE SECOND OF THREE GREAT BUBONIC PLAGUE OUTBREAKS IN EURASIA. THE FIRST WAS THE SIXTH-CENTURY PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN, WHICH MAY HAVE KILLED ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE ON EARTH AT THE TIME. THE LAST WAS THE THIRD PANDEMIC, WHICH BROKE OUT IN YUNNAN PROVINCE IN CHINA IN 1855—JUST UNDER 165 YEARS AGO. DEFORESTATION IN YUNNAN CAUSED HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS THAT LED TO THE OUTBREAK OF BUBONIC PLAGUE, WHICH WAS THEN SPREAD BY SOLDIERS. THE PLAGUE WAS LARGELY CONFINED TO ASIA, WITH TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING OVER THE NEXT FEW DECADES IN CHINA AND INDIA—ONE LIKELY REASON IT’S ALMOST UNKNOWN IN THE WEST.
SINGAPORE — EXTREME FLOODS IN VENICE, FIRES IN AUSTRALIA AND EVEN AN OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE IN CHINA HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE THIS WEEK, WHILE RESEARCHERS HAVE WARNED THAT GLOBAL WARMING COULD SADDLE FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH LIFE-LONG ILLNESS.
TWO PEOPLE IN CHINA WERE DIAGNOSED WITH A SEVERE FORM OF THE PLAGUE, ACCORDING TO REPORTS IN CHINESE MEDIA — RAISING ALARMS FOR CITIZENS DESPITE PROMISES FROM HEALTH AUTHORITIES THAT CONTROL MEASURES ARE IN PLACE. LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THE TWO CASES OF PNEUMONIC PLAGUE ON TUESDAY, ACCORDING TO XINHUA NEWS, CHINA’S STATE-RUN NEWS AGENCY. THE TWO PATIENTS, WHO AUTHORITIES SAY RECEIVED “PROPER TREATMENT,” HAIL FROM CHINA’S INNER MONGOLIA REGION. (BRICE-SADDLER, 11/13)
CENSORS INSTRUCTED ONLINE NEWS AGGREGATORS IN CHINA TO “BLOCK AND CONTROL” ONLINE DISCUSSION RELATED TO NEWS ABOUT THE PLAGUE, ACCORDING TO A DIRECTIVE REVIEWED BY THE TIMES.
PLAGUE IS DIAGNOSED IN CHINA, PROMPTING FEARS OF AN OUTBREAK

 

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