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關鍵詞: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.)
TWO PEOPLE IN CHINA WERE DIAGNOSED WITH PLAGUE, SETTING OFF A PANIC TUESDAY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL SPREAD OF THE HIGHLY INFECTIOUS AND FATAL DISEASE AND PROMPTING CHINA』S GOVERNMENT TO WARN CITIZENS TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
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.
BUT ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, PNEUMONIC PLAGUE COULD POTENTIALLY BE MORE DANGEROUS. THEY SAY THIS STRAIN, WHICH TARGETS THE LUNGS, INCUBATES IN A HOST IN 24 HOURS AND, UNLIKE THE BUBONIC PLAGUE, IS MORE COMMONLY TRANSMITTED FROM PERSON TO PERSON. WHO WARNS THAT THE PNEUMONIC PLAGUE CAN BE FATAL IF NOT TREATED WITHIN 24 HOURS, BUT CAN BE OVERCOME WITH ANTIBIOTICS IF TREATED WITHIN THAT TIME FRAME.
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.
THE CURRENT INFECTION IS PNEUMONIC PLAGUE, WORSE THAN THE BUBONIC PLAGUE WHICH WIPED OUT 60 PER CENT OF EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

 

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