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China plague patient 'near death'
(World health - EU Monitor 05/08/2009)
Public buses have been ordered off the roads of a remote Chinese town to control the possible spread of deadly pneumonic plague that has killed three people and seems poised to claim a fourth victim. One patient hospitalised with the highly infectious lung disease is "near death" while another person is in a serious condition, according to a notice from the health bureau of north-western Qinghai province, where the stricken town of Ziketan is located.
People try to flee Chinese town hit by plague (AP)
(World health - EU Monitor 05/08/2009)
BEIJING - Residents of a remote farming town in western China say people have been seeking to flee in defiance of a lockdown by authorities to prevent the spread of highly infectious pneumonic plague which has claimed three lives in the area. Police have set up checkpoints around Ziketan in Qinghai province, a town of 10,000 people, which has been put under quarantine after at least a dozen people caught the lung infection that can kill within 24 hours if untreated.
Plague death toll rises in China
(BBC 04/08/2009)
A third man has died of pneumonic plague in north-western China where a town of more than 10,000 people has been sealed off, officials say. The 64-year-old man was a neighbour of the first two people to die from the plague in Ziketan in Qinghai Province. Police have set up checkpoints around Ziketan, as medics are disinfecting the area and killing rats and insects. Pneumonic plague, which attacks the lungs, can spread from person to person or from animals to people.
Second plague death in west China - BBC News
(World health - EU Monitor 03/08/2009)
A second man has died of pneumonic plague in a remote part of north-western China where thousands of people have been quarantined. The victim was identified by Chinese state media as a neighbour of the first victim, a herdsman aged 32 in Ziketan, near Xinghai in Qinghai Province. The sparsely populated area is mostly inhabited by Tibetans. Pneumonic plague, which attacks the lungs, can spread from person to person, or from animals to people.
Town quarantined amid plague death
(World health - EU Monitor 02/08/2009)
Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said. The 32-year-old herdsman died in Ziketan in Qinghai province, the provincial health bureau said in a statement posted on its website on Saturday. Most of the others infected are relatives of the deceased and are in stable condition in a hospital, the bureau said.
Bubonic plague reported in Libya
(BBC 17/06/2009)
The World Health Organization (WHO) is sending an expert to Libya to look into a reported outbreak of bubonic plague not far from the Egyptian border. Libyan officials say at least one person has died and several more have been infected in the town of Tubruq. Cases of the disease, which was known as the Black Death in medieval Europe, are reported quite frequently in sub-Saharan Africa. Bubonic plague can be treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early.
(BBC 20/01/2009)
Reports that "black death" has swept through an al-Qaeda camp in north Africa, killing dozens of trainees, are unproven, but the story highlights how plague has never been wiped out. One of the "oldest identifiable diseases known to man", according to the World Health Organization (WHO), plague tends to be associated in the developed world with the Middle Ages.
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