In the northwestern Chinese city of La Lanzhou, more than 20,000,000 people tested positive for brucellosis when they came in contact with contaminated aerosols from a state-run brucellosis vaccine factory a year ago, Chinese state health officials announced on November 4.
China state-run, China-state-run, China-state-run, Chinchilla-state-run, “A total of 55,78 people have been investigated so far near the factory, accounting for .5.5 per cent of the total residents of Yanchang Road sub-district.” Global Times Reported on Thursday.
In the new figures, Lanzo health officials said they had filed documents by September 14 in the same outbreak case. At the time, government health officials said they had reported only 3,245 positive brucellosis cases in a single district.
Brucellosis is a highly contagious bacterial disease commonly found among livestock such as goats, sheep and pigs. Humans usually transmit the disease through close contact with the tissues of an infected animal or through the use of unpasteurized dairy products from infected animals. Symptoms of brucellosis include frequent fever, fatigue, and joint pain. Although rarely fatal, the disease causes severe health problems and damage to reproductive health.
Lanzo health officials announced late last year that the state-run Lanzo biopharmaceutical plant “uses sanitizers that expire between July 24 and August 20 when producing the Brucella vaccine. [2019]”
“This resulted in bacteria entering the factory exhaust and infecting nearby people,” officials said, according to Caxin Global.
The Beijing-based news site noted that there are more than ten communities with a combined population of more than 10,000 within a kilometer of the plant.
Lzhou Nzhou Biopharmaceutical Plant is a unit of the government-run China Animal Husbandry Industry. According to the state health commission tasked with investigating the incident, the plant’s contaminated waste formed gas aerosols that were taken to the nearby Lenzo Veterinary Research Institute, where the outbreak first occurred in November 2019.
“Eight people responsible for the incident at the pharmaceutical factory have been expelled or warned,” an official with the Luzhou Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs told a news conference on Wednesday. Global Times.
Chinese state authorities shut down the Lanzhou biopharmaceutical plant in December 2019 and demolished it in October 2020.
The local government will further urge the company to relocate the plant out of the city and remove the source of the hidden risks, Lan Lanzhou Deputy Mayor Wei Qingxiang told a news conference on Wednesday. VA referred to the state-owned China Animal Husbandry Industry, which operates a pharmaceutical plant.
The outbreak of brucellosis in Lanzhou is the latest vaccine corruption scandal to hit China in recent years. Despite repeated failures In order to safely produce and administer standard vaccines to its citizens, the Chinese Communist Party insists that it will soon release an experimental Chinese coronavirus vaccine.
