Tag: Infectious Section

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How to prevent plague?

According to news reports, on July 17, a confirmed case of pneumonic plague in Yumen City, Gansu Province, resulted in the death of one person. As of the afternoon of the 17th, 151 people were found to be in close contact with the patient. All of them have taken measures such as isolation, epidemiological investigation and preventive medication, and no abnormal symptoms have been found so far. First, what is plague? Plague is a virulent infectious disease mainly transmitted by Yersinia pestis through rat fleas. Can infect people and a variety of animals, is a natural epidemic disease widely prevalent among wild rodents. Clinically, there are three manifestations: septicemia, pneumonia and plague, including fever, severe toxemia symptoms, lymph node enlargement, Read More …

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Review of the First Anniversary of Ebola Crisis: When Will We Not Meet?

It has been exactly a year since the first case of Ebola virus infection was confirmed in West Africa. When will the Ebola crisis end? On 28 December 2013, in a remote village called Meliandou in southern Guinea, a 2-year-old boy died of diarrhea, headache and fever. His 3-year-old sister, his mother and grandmother also died a few days later. According to WHO reports, these deaths did not attract much attention at first and people did not realize that the disease was spreading. It was not until March 2014 that Guinea’s health officials realized that the crisis had emerged. Ebola has never hit West Africa before, so the virus, the most serious global outbreak that killed more than 7,500 people Read More …

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Be careful, Norovirus strikes!

Although the name sounds a bit bluff-Norovirus, it is actually a common virus, not a new type of virus. Within 48 hours after infection, patients will suffer from acute gastroenteritis symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, especially vomiting symptoms. Winter is the season of high incidence of Norovirus outbreaks, also known as [winter vomiting disease]. Because Norovirus is very easy to contaminate food, it is the main pathogen causing diarrhea outbreaks. In the United States, it causes nearly 50% of food-borne diseases. The virus is highly infectious and needs to be cleaned with disinfectant. This is a highly infectious virus, which only needs 10-100 virus particles to cause disease. You know, one vomiting can expel hundreds of millions of virus Read More …

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What is the current situation of MERS epidemic in the first [three infections] case?

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) first reported the epidemic this year, it has been a week since the outbreak of MERS. As of the morning of June 2, 2015, South Korea’s health department announced a total of 25 confirmed cases of the epidemic and two patients died, including the third generation of infection cases. Nearly 700 people needed to be isolated, of which about 35% were classified as high-risk and required to stay in special isolation places, while others stayed at home for isolation and were restricted from leaving the country. A first [three infections] case It is a matter of concern that among the new patients, there are the first [three infections] cases. Citing foreign media reports, two Read More …