What is the plague?

Yersinia pestis is a virulent infectious disease mainly spread by rat fleas. The clinical manifestations are fever, severe toxemia, lymphadenopathy, pneumonia and bleeding tendency. Clinically, it can be divided into four types: glandular type, pulmonary type, septicemia type and mild type, among which pneumonic plague is the most serious one with extremely high mortality. This type of disease is sudden and develops rapidly. Within 24 ~ 36 hours of onset, severe poisoning symptoms, severe chest pain, cough, a lot of foam blood sputum or bright red sputum occurred. Shortness of breath, and rapid dyspnea and cyanosis, if not rescued in time, more than 2-3 days, will die of heart failure and massive bleeding.

Treatment: All confirmed or suspected plague patients should be treated in isolation immediately, and no transfer is allowed. The principle of treatment is early, combined, sufficient and sensitive antibacterial drugs. Streptomycin and gentamicin can be selected.

prevent

Strictly control the source of infection: suspected or confirmed patients should be reported, isolated and treated immediately.

Eliminate the source of animal infection: monitor the epidemic situation in natural foci and kill rats.

Cut off the route of transmission: kill fleas. Cats, dogs, livestock, etc. Also spray; Strengthen frontier health quarantine

Protection of susceptible people: residents in epidemic areas should be vaccinated, generally EV non-toxic working vaccine. Medical staff should wear isolation suits and take tetracycline, sulfadiazine or streptomycin after contact with patients.