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關鍵詞:in China
概念:
"THE (CHINESE) NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION ARE IMPLEMENTING EFFORTS TO CONTAIN AND TREAT THE IDENTIFIED CASES, AND INCREASING SURVEILLANCE," SAID FABIO SCANO, COORDINATOR AT WHO CHINA.
ACCORDING TO THE ATLANTA-BASED CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC), PLAGUE IS CAUSED BY THE BACTERIUM, YERSINIA PESTIS. HUMANS USUALLY GET PLAGUE AFTER BEING BITTEN BY A RODENT FLEA THAT IS CARRYING THE PLAGUE BACTERIUM OR BY HANDLING AN ANIMAL INFECTED WITH PLAGUE.
THE TWO PATIENTS ARE BEING TREATED IN BEIJING CHAOYANG HOSPITAL HAVING BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH THE SEVERE CONDITION AT NOON TODAY, CHINA GLOBAL TELEVISION NETWORK REPORT. PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED. THE HOSPITAL, USUALLY ONCE ONE OF THE BUSIEST IN THE CAPITAL, WAS FOUND WITH VIRTUALLY NO PATIENT IN SIGHT ON TUESDAY NIGHT, AFTER THE TWO PATIENTS WERE ADMITTED, THE GLOBAL TIMES REPORTS.
CHINESE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY THE RISK OF AN OUTBREAK OF PNEUMONIC PLAGUE IS MINIMAL AFTER TWO NEW CASES WERE CONFIRMED THIS WEEK IN BEIJING, THE OFFICIAL CHINA DAILY SAID ON THURSDAY.
SYMPTOMS OF PNEUMONIC PLAGUE INCLUDE FEVER, HEADACHE, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, CHEST PAIN, AND COUGH. THEY TYPICALLY START ABOUT THREE TO SEVEN DAYS AFTER EXPOSURE. IT IS ONE OF THREE FORMS OF PLAGUE, THE OTHER TWO BEING SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE AND BUBONIC PLAGUE.
「PLAGUE, CAUSED BY BACTERIA AND TRANSMITTED THROUGH FLEA BITES AND INFECTED ANIMALS, CAN DEVELOP IN THREE DIFFERENT FORMS. BUBONIC PLAGUE CAUSES SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES, WHILE SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE INFECTS THE BLOOD AND PNEUMONIC PLAGUE INFECTS THE LUNGS,」 CNN CONTINUES. 「PNEUMONIC — THE KIND THE CHINESE PATIENTS HAVE — IS MORE VIRULENT AND DAMAGING. LEFT UNTREATED, IT IS ALWAYS FATAL, ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO).」
PLAGUE: IN CHINA, AUTHORITIES SAY THE RODENT POPULATION HAS RISEN AFTER DROUGHTS AND CAUSED A RARE OUTBREAK OF PNEUMONIC PLAGUE (THE PLAGUE-CAUSING BACTERIA IS PICTURED IN A FILE IMAGE)
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.
"BEIJING CITIZENS DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE RISK OF PLAGUE. BEIJING IS NOT A PLAGUE PESTHOLE," THE CDC SAID IN A STATEMENT ON ITS WEBSITE, ADDING THAT THERE WAS NO PLAGUE IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND RATS WERE NOT INFESTED.
THE DISEASE WE CALL PLAGUE IS CAUSED BY A ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA CALLED YERSINIA PESTIS. THE BACTERIA CAN MAKE US SICK IN THREE DISTINCT WAYS, DEPENDING ON HOW IT ENTERS AND INFECTS THE BODY. WHEN WE GET INFECTED THROUGH CONTACT WITH ANIMALS (USUALLY THE BITE OF A FLEA THAT HAD FED ON ANOTHER INFECTED ANIMAL, LIKE A RAT), IT TYPICALLY GOES AFTER OUR LYMPH NODES AND CAUSES BUBONIC PLAGUE. WHEN THE BACTERIA IS INHALED INTO OUR LUNGS, IT CAUSES PNEUMONIC PLAGUE. MORE RARELY, IT CAN END UP IN OUR BLOODSTREAM, WHICH IS THEN KNOWN AS SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE.
CHINA HAS OFFICIALLY RECORDED MORE THAN 1,000 CASES OF PLAGUE IN THE PAST 50 YEARS, INCLUDING 183 DEATHS. THE YERSINIA PESTIS BACTERIA THAT CAUSES IT IS MOST COMMON CHINA』S NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST, WITH ABOUT HALF OF ALL DIAGNOSED CASES BEING IN SOUTHWEST CHINA』S YUNNAN PROVINCE AND THE LARGEST NUMBER OF RECORDED DEATHS BEING IN NORTHWEST CHINA』S QINGHAI PROVINCE.

 

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