The new case, which was confirmed on July 5 , was found in a herdsman living in the northern city of Bayannur. Local health authorities issued a third-level alert, advising people to avoid hunting, eating, or transporting animals that may potentially carry the disease. The plague diagnosis comes months after the Chinese government announced 3 people had contracted pneumonic plague in the country late last year.
Amid the COVID pandemic, it may be frightening to imagine another disease spreading across the globe — especially one as infamous as the bubonic plague. Additionally, the disease is rare with a few cases every year found in the United States. Shanthi Kappagoda , an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care, told Healthline in an interview last year. The bubonic plague is a serious infection of the lymphatic system, which is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis Y.
Without treatment, the bubonic plague can cause death in up to 60 percent of people who get it, according to the World Health Organization WHO. The plague is extremely rare.
Only a couple thousand cases are reported worldwide each year, most of which are in Africa, India, and Peru. Robert Glatter , an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital, said. It can successfully be treated with antibiotics, and according to the CDC , treatment has lowered mortality rates to approximately 11 percent. The antibiotics work best if given within 24 hours of the first symptoms. In severe cases, patients can be given oxygen, intravenous fluids, and breathing support.
And even if it does, we now have the knowledge and resources to control it. New cases of the bubonic plague found in China are making headlines. After construction workers digging tunnels for the new Crossrail train line in discovered some 25 skeletons buried under Charterhouse Square in the Clerkenwell area of London, scientists immediately suspected they had stumbled on a plague cemetery. The square, once home to The flu was first observed As human civilizations flourished, so did infectious disease.
Large numbers of people living in close proximity to each other and to animals, often with poor sanitation and nutrition, provided fertile breeding grounds for disease. And new overseas trading routes spread the novel The horrific scale of the influenza pandemic—known as the "Spanish flu"—is hard to fathom. The virus infected and killed at least 50 million worldwide, according to the CDC.
While the Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Symptoms of the Black Plague Europeans were scarcely equipped for the horrible reality of the Black Death.
How Did the Black Death Spread? Understanding the Black Death Today, scientists understand that the Black Death, now known as the plague, is spread by a bacillus called Yersinia pestis. Recommended for you. Black Death. Death of Hitler. Black Gold. Blacks in the Military. Pandemics That Changed History In the realm of infectious diseases, a pandemic is the worst case scenario. Plague epidemics have occurred in Africa, Asia, and South America but most human cases since the s have occurred in Africa.
Almost all of the cases reported in the last 20 years have occurred among people living in small towns and villages or agricultural areas rather than in larger towns and cities. Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link. Section Navigation.
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Maps and Statistics. Minus Related Pages. Plague in the United States Plague was first introduced into the United States in , by rat—infested steamships that had sailed from affected areas, mostly from Asia.
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