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Bacteria escaped from a Chinese laboratory, killing 3,000 people
Date: September 18, 2020 at 5:13 p.m.
The people of northern China have been infected with bacteria that had escaped from laboratories last year.
The CNN news agency reported that a health commission in Lanzhou, in northern China’s Gansu province, found an outbreak of brucellosis, which was caused by a bacterial brucella infection. It confirmed that 3,245 villagers were infected and the other 1,401 had positive preliminary test results. And I haven’t found any dead
This outbreak started late last year. After the brucella bacteria escaped late from the laboratory of the Zhongmu Lanzhou Pharmaceutical Factory. July to the end of the month August of last year
Said the health committee. While the facility was producing the brucella vaccine for animal use. The factory has used an expired antiseptic. The brucella bacteria remain in the elimination process and form droplets in the air. And it was blown away by the wind at the Lanzhou Zoological Research Institute which was where the first epidemic occurred
The Chinese authorities have initially revoked a vaccine license. Including certification numbers for the production of two brucellosis vaccines at the root drug factory since the beginning of last year
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state that brucellosis in humans Also known as Maltese fever. Or Mediterranean fever.This can cause symptoms such as headache, muscle pain, fever, fatigue and some symptoms may become chronic or persistent, such as arthritis, inflammation of organs.
Patients can become infected with brucella from eating contaminated meat. Or breathing, as in the case of Lanzhou But person-to-person infection rarely occurs.
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