Inner Mongolia reports two cases of bubonic plague
Inner Mongolia reports two cases of bubonic plague
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China's Inner Mongolia reports two cases of bubonic plague
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Mongolia is a country.
Inner Mongolia is a province of China.
Some basic fact checking before posting should really be the norm here.
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Edited it. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Ikr heck even the article says “China’s Mongolia”
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - China's northern region of Inner Mongolia reported two cases of bubonic plague on Saturday, following a previous infection that was detected on Aug. 7, the local government said.
The two people infected are the husband and daughter of the previous case, the government said in a statement on its website.
All close contacts have been quarantined and have shown no abnormal symptoms, according to the statement.
Cases of bubonic plague infection, a highly infectious disease that is spread mostly by rodents, are low in China, with most found in Inner Mongolia and northwestern Ningxia region in recent years.
Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague, which can be fatal if not treated in time, according to the World Health Organization.
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If you don't have the CCR5 Delta32 mutation that makes you immune to this and HIV then store bought antibiotics are just fine.
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It’s really not as big of a deal as it seems, especially with swift medical care, which it sounds like they got. Even the US has several cases of bubonic plague every year basically without fail.
I mean the main reason it was so deadly, apart from lack of medical knowledge and access to antibiotics, is that Europe had enormous numbers of people crammed into cities with no sanitation and no pest control. We don't live like that anymore so cases don't spread. The black plague was a disease of its time.
Modern plagues like covid take advantage of how we constantly move people around the world and within countries, which is a different challenge.
You say that, but have you seen the enormous homeless camps in Los Angeles and San Francisco? We're talking about thousands of people without sanitation, clean water, shelter, food or even the ability to wash themselves or their clothes. It's really bad and probably on par with 10th century Europe as far as living conditions, although many of these people are worse off because they lack the ability to take care of themselves and many of them are drug addicts.
Pneumonic plague absolutely could spread quite well if it didn't kill you in two days like it does now. Thankfully it seems happy sticking to rodents. If we were really going to see an outbreak of a variant of it that spreads better, I'd expect it to come from Madagascar where plague is quite a problem. Over 200 died in an outbreak in 2017.
Even without antibiotics, mouse traps and insecticide will stop bubonic plague from spreading.