Explanation 丨 Prevention and treatment!Five questions about plague reporters combed you

Zhejiang News Client reporter Zheng Wen

On July 19, 2022, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region confirmed a case of an input primary plague (adenoral plague) outside the region.

What is a plague? Can it be cured? How to prevent it? The reporter sorted out the relevant content on the official website of the China Disease Prevention and Control Center.

What is the situation of my country's plague and epidemic?

Historically, the plague has been popular in the world three times. It was once known as the "black death", causing serious losses of human life and health. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, my country's plague was very serious. After the founding of the People's Republic of my country, the Chinese government attaches great importance to the prevention and control of plague, and the number of onsets has fallen significantly. By the 1980s, there were about 20 cases of cases per year. The sporadic case report is mainly concentrated in some provinces in northwestern my country.

What are the characteristics of plague?

Plague is an ancient infectious disease that is caused by the plague. The incubation period of plague is generally 1 to 6 days, and individual cases can reach 8 to 9 days.

After infection of plague bacteria, clinical can be manifested as types of gland plague, lung plague, and blood -blooded plague. Gland plague is the most common, usually manifested as fever and local lymph nodes, high cure rates. Poor plague is often manifested as high fever, cough, chest tightness, dyspnea, and hemoptysis. Due to the urgency of onset, the disease progresses quickly. If it is not treated in time, the mortality rate is high. Symptoms of blood -type plague are also severe and poor prognosis.

The plague is a natural epidemic disease. The main animals carrying the plague bacteria are mainly rodent animals such as rats and marmot. Under natural conditions, my country is mainly distributed in a special environment.

How to spread the plague?

The plague is mainly through the spread of the pathogenesis, contact dissemination, and droplet transmission. In the natural epidemic source, the transmission of pathogens is the most important way to propagate. Flea is the main medium for spreading plague. Flea infection in the infection animal infected with the plague bacteria and then bite people, which can cause human infection. Contact transmission refers to the infection of the germ in the body through an excrement and secretions that contact the infection animal when slaughtering, peeling and meat eating, or when the germontic section wound or mucosa enters the body through the skin surface wound or mucosa. In addition, the respiratory secretions of patients with plague contain a large amount of plague bacteria. The germs released by the patient when breathing and coughing can form a droplet and suspend the air in a short time. At this time, others can also cause infection when inhaled.

Can the plague be effectively treated?

The plague is an ancient bacterial infectious disease, which can be treated with a variety of effective antibiotics clinically. If the patient can see the early consultation and get effective treatment, the cure rate is very high. Suspicious contacts can also avoid the onset through preventive medication.

How do the public do personal protection?

Good personal hygiene habits are the most effective measures for various infectious diseases, including plague protection. If you wash your hands, try to avoid crowds of crowds. When you go to medical institutions or individuals, you should wear masks when fever, cough and other related symptoms.

If you suspect that you have been in contact with cases, you can conduct self -observation, or take the initiative to declare to the local illness and control department to obtain professional guidance. Once symptoms such as fever and cough occur, you should seek medical treatment in time.

Try to reduce contact with wild animals when traveling out, do not go to make a marmot with unknown health, do a good job of anti -flea biting, reduce body exposure by using exorns, reduce body exposure, avoid being bitten by fleas, and do not hunted or eat wildlife.

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