According to media reports, on July 19, 2022, a case of plague (bubonic plague) was confirmed in the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University.
It is reported that the patient is a 45-year-old herdsman engaged in pasture farming. He developed fever, fatigue, and unconsciousness around 9:00 on July 12, so he went to the hospital for treatment. A suspected case of plague was subsequently diagnosed on July 19, and a case of plague was confirmed that day.
At present, in accordance with the requirements of the autonomous region’s plague control emergency plan, the local government has launched a four-level emergency response .
Relevant regions and units have fully activated the emergency response mechanism in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and have adopted strict classification control measures for epidemic-related areas and personnel.
What kind of disaster does the black death god behind this bring to mankind?
For the plague, modern people may not hear much about it, but the older generation of people in the past often talked about it.
Following through historical documents, we learned that this plague, like the hand of the devil Satan, has caused endless threats to life and spiritual torture in human history.
As early as 642 years in the park, the plague broke out in the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire. At the peak of the plague, about 5000-10000 people died of the disease every day, and the entire Constantine The fort was almost destroyed.
And then in the Middle Ages, the plague established the horror name of “Black Death”.
In the summer of 1347, at the center of the Mediterranean trade routes, the plague began to make landfall in Italy, and then ravaged Europe for more than five centuries.
Even in modern times, the plague has begun to land in our country.
In 1894, the plague broke out in Hong Kong, which reached its peak in the 1930s. Many countries and regions in Asia, Europe, and Africa also fell, and nearly 10 million people died.
The epidemic is mainly concentrated in coastal cities and nearby densely populated residential areas, and the epidemic is extremely fast, far greater than the previous two epidemics.
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as A Class A infectious disease, the plague has never been extinct on the earth.
With the continuous updating of human medicine, the social public health conditions have been improved, and the plague has been controlled on a large scale. Sexually transmitted diseases have never disappeared or gone extinct.
According to news reports, A plague outbreak occurred in Madagas Island from the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2018, with more than 2,600 reported cases, of which 78% were pneumonic plague.
In recent decades, although there has not been a large-scale plague outbreak in my country, there are still scattered cases. Among them, the plague outbreak in Qinghai, China in 2004 was caused by local herdsmen who hunted and Caused by stripping marmots.
What kind of disease is the plague?
Public plague is a severe infectious disease caused by bacterial infection. Once humans come into contact with Yersinia pestis, the possibility of being infected with plague is very high.
Rats, woodchucks, and other rodents harbor large amounts of Yersinia pestis, a highly contagious bacterium that is spread by rat fleas.
Once the bacteria invade the skin, they will quickly enter the lymphatic tissue, which will lead to lymphadenitis, and also lead to a more severe inflammatory reaction in the surrounding tissue.
The fatality rate of patients is as high as 30%~60% after being infected with plague without timely and effective treatment.
The main clinical manifestations are high fever and swollen lymph nodes, which will also appear as the disease continues to aggravate.Most patients will develop septicemia due to lung inflammation and bacterial infection of the whole body. Once the plague bacteria is found in the body, active treatment should be performed.
What happens to the body after infection with plague?
First, mild
Because of the symptoms of low fever in the early stage of infection with plague bacteria, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as other diseases.
Although some other mild symptoms may also appear in the body, such as local lymph node swelling and soreness or skin pus, it is difficult to arouse the patient’s high vigilance.
In fact, once infected with Yersinia pestis, timely treatment can not only reduce physical harm, but also effectively improve the survival rate.
In most cases, people who have not been vaccinated have a particularly high chance of being infected with the plague if they live in rural areas with severe environmental pollution for a long time.
Second, glandular type
Glandular Bubonic plague usually occurs in the early stage of the epidemic. Compared with mild plague, patients with bubonic plague will have many acute symptoms.
Such as high fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, along with body aches, skin ecchymosis, and chills, the onset is rapid will be very fast.
It can even lead to severe inflammation in the lymph nodes and surrounding tissues, and if there is no active treatment, it will develop into severe toxemia, which will lead to or die.
As a natural foci disease, we can only reduce the spread and speed of plague through preventive measures.
Once the plague patients are found, they must be isolated and disinfected in time, and the rat fleas in the epidemic area should be removed in time. Cut off the source of infection.
References:
[1] “Transition in Disaster: Black The Influence of Death Diseases on European Culture” Source: “Journal of Renmin University of China”, No. 1, 2004 Author: Li He
[2] Zietz BP, Dunkelberg H. The history and pathogen of plague Yersin Bacterial research. International Journal of Health and Environmental Hygiene, 2004207(2): 165-78.