World Medical News: Russia Orders Mass Vaccination Against Bubonic Plague For Residents In Border Region Near China’s Bubonic Epicenter
Source: World Medical News Aug 13, 2020 5 years, 6 months, 1 week, 22 hours, 43 minutes ago
World Medical News: Authorities of a remote Russian region on Thursday announced that livestock herders and other residents of two districts on the border with Mongolia have to be vaccinated against bubonic plague.
The new order was issued after Mongolia's health ministry said Wednesday that bubonic plague killed a second man in the country's west. It was the latest in a handful of cases to emerge there and in neighbouring China this year.
The head of the Siberian region of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool, said all residents of the region's two border districts, Ovyursky and Mongun-Taiginsky, will be inoculated. The two districts are home to some 14,000 individuals.
The regional leader said in a statement that the disease is dangerous and called for everyone over the age of two to be vaccinated and for a permanent stock of the vaccine.
Russian health officials earlier appealed to residents of the mountainous Tuva and Altai regions not to hunt or eat marmots.
Typically, bubonic plague is highly contagious and transmitted between animals and humans through the bite of infected fleas and contact with infected animals like marmots.
Meanwhile as a result of the second death, China had sealed off village in Inner Mongolia.
According to a medic report, authorities in China have cut off a Chinese region of Inner Mongolia after a man living in one of its villages was confirmed to have died of bubonic plague infection, this was the second death in weeks.
Bubonic plague is a dreaded disease, and a centuries-old disease and its causative contagion is known to have triggered the worse pandemics in human history.
The recent bubonic plague victim from China was a resident of a village called Baotou and his death on Thursday came after his circulatory system collapsed, the Baotou Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its website.
Chinese health authorities have not given more details about how the plague originated and where the victim caught the infection etc.
As a precautionary procedure to contain the spread of the disease, Chinese authorities seem to have clamped down upon the Suji Xincun village in Damao Banner district, where the dead patient lived, sealing it and cutting it off from the rest of the country. Villagers in the area are being asked to get tested and houses are being disinfected.
To date no new infections have been reported. But as a precautionary method, nine persons who were in close contact with the man and 26 others who are traced as secondary contacts, have all been tested. Fortunately, they have all tested negative, says the report.
It was reported that the entire district where the village is located will be on plague-prevention alert until the end of the year. Level - 3 alert is in place.
There are 4 levels to the alert system. The alert prohibits the hunting and eating of animals that could transfer plague. It also urges people to inform the authorities of any suspected cases of plague or fever due to unknown reasons, and report any sick or dead marmots and other animals.
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