Source: Dubai – Arabia.net
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China was soon finished with what it was, until I found out Chinese authorities Several thousand people were infected with a new bacterial disease, following a leak in a plant belonging to a vital medicine company in the northwest of the country, according to a report by the American CNN network.
In details, the Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, confirmed that 3,245 people have contracted brucellosis, which is often caused by contact with livestock that Carry bacteria.
The City Health Commission stated that another 1,401 people had initially tested positive, although no deaths were reported.
In total, the authorities examined 21,847 people out of the 2.9 million people in the city.
The disease, also known as Malta fever or Mediterranean fever, can cause symptoms including headache, muscle aches, fever and fatigue, and these symptoms can become chronic.
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From person to person
Human-to-human transmission is extremely rare, but most people become infected by eating contaminated food or entering bacteria through breathing.
The outbreak was caused by a leak at the Lanzhou Zhongmu Biological Medicines Plant that occurred between late July and late August last year.
During the production of brucella vaccines for animal use, the aforementioned plant used expired disinfectants, which means that not all bacteria in the waste gas were eliminated, until the form of polluted waste gas was an aerosol that contains bacteria, and a leak in the air, which was carried by the wind to the Institute Lanzhou Veterinary Research, where the first outbreak began.
Brucellosis
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People at the institute began reporting infection in November, and infections quickly accelerated.
By the end of December, at least 181 people at the institute had contracted brucellosis, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
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In addition, the report indicated that the disease transmitted to students and faculty members from Lanzhou University, and also spread in Heilongjiang Province in the northeastern tip of the country after 13 other cases were recorded.
And last December, the new Corona virus appeared for the first time in China and spread throughout the world, until now, it has claimed at least 936,095 lives.
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