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Anonymous ID: aa192d July 6, 2020, 6:33 p.m. No.9879244   🗄️.is 🔗kun

China issues health warning after suspected case of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia

Ross McGuinness July 6, 2020, 4:21 AM EDT

 

A health warning has been issued after China reported a suspected case of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia. The patient is a herdsman and the case was discovered in the city of Bayannur, state media reported.He is said to be in a stable condition and remains in quarantine.

 

Authorities in the city issued a level 3 warning, the second-lowest in a four-tier alert system.

The alert forbids the hunting and eating of animals that could carry the plague. It also asks the public to report any suspected cases of plague or fever with no clear causes. The public have also been asked to report any sick or death marmots.

 

In May last year, a couple died in Mongolia from bubonic plague after eating raw marmot. In 2018, a boy in the US contracted the disease. There were four reported human cases of plague in Inner Mongolia last November. Between 2009 and 2018, China reported 26 cases of plague and 11 deaths.

The bubonic plague, known as the Black Death during the Middle Ages, is highly infectious and spread mostly by rodents. The Black Death caused about 50 million deaths in Africa, Asia and Europe during the 14th century.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-reports-bubonic-plague-case-115748874.html

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it had stepped up patrols to stop people hunting marmots near its border China and Mongolia after the countries reported possible cases of bubonic plague, which can be carried by the animals. Authorities in Russia's Altai region, which borders Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia, said officials were patrolling the area to enforce a ban on hunting marmots and to warn people about the dangers, TASS news agency reported.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-cracks-down-marmot-hunting-151458696.html

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Scientists Discover Lethal Brain-Eating Amoeba in Florida

Tara C. Mahadevan July 5, 2020, 6:13 PM EDT

 

Health officials have confirmed the presence of a rare, deadly, brain-eating amoeba in Florida’s Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa and several other cities.

 

On Friday, the Florida Department of Health announced that a person in the county had been infected with naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can cause a serious brain infection called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, the Daily Beast reports. This particular infection “destroys the brain tissue and is usually fatal,” according to health officials.

 

The amoeba lives in lakes, rivers, and ponds, and flourishes in warm weather. Health officials say the way to thwart an infection is by “avoiding nasal contact with the waters, since the amoeba enters through the nasal passages.” There have been only 37 cases of the amoeba in Florida since 1962, with only four people out of 143 total cases in the U.S. having survived the brain infection.

 

The same amoeba was discovered in the water supply of a Louisiana parish in 2013. That summer, it killed a 4-year-old boy and was connected to the death of another boy in Florida. While the fatality rate is 99 percent, CNN reports 12-year-old Kali Hardig of Arkansas survived after taking an experimental drug. According to the CDC, symptoms of infection include vomiting, nausea, fever, and headache.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientists-discover-lethal-brain-eating-221350568.html