I'm starting this plague to watch and track plagues that are and will be occurring.
I wrote an
article that I wrote for our Ministry newsletter and my blog,
which I would also like to share here as an explanation as to why this thread is being created. Below are the plagues that I have tracked over the
past week and I will updating this thread (and encourage others as well) as new plagues are introduced:
Antibiotic Resistant ESBL-Producing E.coli Strain Spreading In UK
Source:
www.medicalnewstoday.com...
S.Korea closes livestock markets due to foot-and-mouth disease
Source:
hisz.rsoe.hu...
China
A 59-year-old local woman was found to have contracted H5N1 avian flu virus after visiting the mainland last month, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and
Health York Chow said Wednesday. Speaking at a press briefing Wednesday evening, Chow said the patient went to the mainland on Oct. 23 where she
visited places including Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. She developed flu symptoms such as cough and fever on Nov. 2, one day after returning to Hong
Kong, and was later admitted to Tun Mun Hospital. Chow said since the patient, who is now in a serious condition, had been to wet markets in the
mainland, he believed that the contraction was probably happened outside Hong Kong. But he did not rule out the possibility that it was a local case.
The Serious Response Level under the government's Preparedness Plan for Influenza Pandemic is activated, said the city's health chief, adding that the
government will submit the case to the World Health Organization and various departments will call on a conference on Nov. 18. There was an outbreak
of the disease in 1997 in Hong Kong in which six people died. About 1.5 million poultry were killed to prevent further spread of the disease.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea's cholera outbreak appears to have spread. Thirteen children have died on a remote island near the maritime border with Australia in
the Torres Strait. Infection rates have slowed after the outbreak began on PNG's north coast in August last year and spread throughout the mainland.
Now the disease appears to have surfaced on remote Daru Island, 50 kilometres from Saibai Island on the Australian side of the Torres Strait. The
National newspaper reports 13 children have died from cholera-like symptoms and 64 other people are being treated in the local hospital. Australia's
aid agency AusAID is monitoring the situation and working to confirm the details. A spokesman says they will discuss the issue with the World Health
Organisation and the PNG government and may consider a joint mission to the island.
Granada
Sources at the Provincial Health Delegation reported to Europa Press that during the measles outbreak registered in Granada [the capital city of
Granada province], the number of infected people has increased to 20, including 4 minors who were admitted to the Maternal and Child Hospital of
Granada but whose condition is not serious. The 1st case was detected in the Gomez Moreno Preschool and Primary School, located in the Albaicin
neighbourhood, among a group of children who had not been vaccinated by their parents, a situation which led to the outbreak spreading to the other
people, 5 of whom were from the school and [of these only] 2 adults. The health authorities have advised parents of students at this school to have
their children vaccinated immediately, and newsletters are being sent to them urging them to have to all their schoolchildren vaccinated, if not
previously immunised. The Andalusian health minister, Maria Jesus Montero, stated last week [week of 1 Nov 2010] that "measles is usually a disease
that progresses with mild symptoms and no major consequences," and stressed that measles is one of the diseases "that can be eradicated because there
is an effective vaccine available to immunise the population." Of the 20 cases recorded so far, 4 have been admitted to the Maternal and Child
Hospital, but none of them is seriously ill.
Haiti
An outbreak of diarrhoea in Haiti has claimed at least 50 lives and hundreds are being treated in local hospitals. "We have registered 51 or 52 deaths
along the Artibonite river which crosses the centre and north of the country," doctor Arial Henry, director of the health minister's office, said.
According to local radio, most of the dead have been taken to hospitals in Saint-Marc, about 100km north of the capital. Haiti is still struggling to
rebuild after a devastating 7.0 earthquake ravaged the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January, leaving more than 250,000 people dead and another 1.2
million homeless. Aid agencies have voiced fears for months that any outbreak of disease could spread rapidly among the population due to the
unsanitary conditions in the makeshift camps housing the homeless, with little access to clean water. The impoverished Caribbean nation has also been
hit in recent days by severe flooding adding to the misery of those struggling to survive in the scores of tent cities now dotting the country. "An
investigation is underway to determine where this outbreak might have originated and analyses are being carried out in the national laboratory in
Haiti," Dr Henry added. "Some people died in their homes in the Artibonite region and in central Haiti and several hundreds have been hospitalised and
are under being monitored," another official added.
Somalia
At least 19 children under the age of 5 have died of measles while dozens more are suffering from the same disease in the lower Shabelle region of
southern Somalia, local residents said Tuesday. With no medical facilities present in the village of Lego, locals reported more than 30 children under
5 had come down with the disease. “We used to get various vaccinations and free food from international relief organizations by going nowhere, but
right now, everything has changed; no aid agency, no immunization today,” said a local resident who asked his name not be used, spelling out that Al
Shabaab stood in their way to access free medicine and aid food. Al Shabaab, which controls large swaths in the southern and northern regions of the
country, has banned aid agencies from operating in southern and central Somalia. Measles is highly contagious. Infection occurs by coming into contact
with fluids released when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Just under 200,000 children affected by measles die every year worldwide, according to
Medicine Sans Frontiers (MSF). Even though a safe and effective vaccine exists, outbreaks occur all round the world because routine immunization
programmes are not in place or are not effective. Meanwhile, severe drought has hit in the region, and people and domestic animals are close to dying
of thirst and hunger, according to Muse Adam Hassan, a local elder in the village, located southwest of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. “One barrel
of water is worth 30,000 up to 40,000 Somali shilling ($1 to $1.50),” Hassan added. In August, Al Shabaab also ordered three international aid
agencies--World Vision, Adventist Development and Relief Agency and Diakonia--to stop serving in Somalia, claiming they were "actively propagating
Christianity" in the Horn of Africa country. The terrorist group warned other aid organizations not to take up their work, mentioning action would be
taken against them. Relief agencies serving inside Somalia say aid to millions of Somalis is hampered by the danger that aid workers face and a lack
of respect for international humanitarian law by the parties to the conflict.
Congo
An explosive outbreak of polio is taking place in the Congo Republic, with 201 cases of paralysis found in two weeks and 104 deaths, the World Health
Organization said Tuesday. The government in Brazzaville, the nation’s capital, has declared an emergency and announced plans to vaccinate the
entire population with oral drops three times with help from the W.H.O., Unicef and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In
Pointe Noire, the port city where most of the cases are concentrated, “We’ve got two hospitals with hundreds of paralyzed people and many dead,”
Dr. Bruce Aylward, the W.H.O.’s director of global polio eradication, said in an interview from Geneva. “And a couple of things about this
outbreak are different and deeply disturbing.” Polio normally strikes young boys and girls equally, killing no more than 20 percent of those it
paralyzes; death ensues when paralysis moves up the spine to the nerves that control the breathing muscles. In Pointe Noire, 85 percent of the cases
are in teenagers and adults, most victims are male, and the death rate is much higher.
However, Dr. Aylward said, as his team on its way there learns more, the outbreak could begin to look more typical, albeit still serious. “We’ve
only heard about this in the last seven days,” he said. “This is very much under investigation.” Pointe Noire is unusual in that rebel activity
has so cut off its roads that the city is “almost like an island,” he said, with few outside children visiting. Routine polio vaccination in
central Africa began only in the 1980s and focuses on children under age 5, so few adults are protected. Also, the weakened live virus in the vaccine
spreads in the same way the disease virus does, shed in feces. Because mothers and sisters tend to change babies’ diapers, they may have picked up
that accidental form of protection. Also, the hospitals are probably seeing only serious cases, making the death rate artificially high. “We’re
still dealing with the fog of war,” Dr. Aylward said. “We don’t have exact data.” In 1996, he noted, there was an adult outbreak in
long-isolated Albania after a few years in which only children got the modern vaccine. It will take a few weeks to see whether the intense central
African vaccination campaigns of the last few years can fence off this outbreak, Dr. Aylward said. He called the situation in the Congo Republic an
unexpected setback in what had otherwise been a great year in fighting polio. Nigeria, long Africa’s polio hot spot, had a 98 percent drop in cases
since 2009, and 14 of the 15 countries with outbreaks of the Nigerian strain snuffed them out. The Congo Republic outbreak is of an Indian strain that
was first found in Angola in 2007 and is creeping north.
Taiwan
A woman who mistook her fever and skin rash as symptoms of a cold was found to have scrub typhus, an acute infectious disease, according to the
Tzu-Chi Buddhist General Hospital's Talin branch in the southern county of Chiayi. Lai Chung-chang, a doctor at the hospital, said that a woman, aged
over 50, went to a mountainous area to pick tea leaves last month, and then came down with a fever and saw roseola spread around her arms and legs a
few days later. The woman took flu medicine initially, but the fever failed to ease, forcing her to seek treatment at the Tzu-Chi hospital. As the
doctor in charge, Lai sent the blood sample of the woman to the Center for Disease Control for examination, proving that she had contracted the scrub
typhus or the tsutsugamushi disease. The woman, after taking oral antibiotics for a week, got well and has since been discharged from hospital,
according to Lai. He said that if sufferers of the disease fail to receive proper medical treatment in time, they might suffer organ failure,
eventually leading to death. Lai said tsutsugamushi disease cases have been reported across the island, with the outlying Kinmen county and the
eastern county of Pingtung reporting the most cases.
Mongolia
A new, still unknown to the medical fraternity flu virus has been found in Mongolia. The symptoms of this influenza are similar to the so-called
‘bird’ and ‘swine’ flu viruses. The virus is classified as H3N2 strain. In Ulan Bator, already 17 cases of this influenza have been
registered. Young children are considered to be at greatest risk. Chief Public Relations Officer at National Research Center for Infectious Diseases
in Mongolia Chuluunbat Urtnasan explained that doctors currently do not know how to protect themselves from the virus H3N2. According to him, the main
attention should be paid to protecting the body from cold. Body weakened by cold body can be prone to be infected by this new type of virus, report
agencies. Chuluunbat Urtnasan has asked people to contact doctors for medical help at the very first symptoms of infection. He recommends to often
ventilate and do wet cleaning at at work and at home. In the absence of fever, the patients have been recommended to take heat procedures, and
baths.
England
A suspected outbreak of the winter bug norovirus is being investigated at a Cardiff city centre hotel. The Park Plaza hotel is thought to have been
hit with the winter sickness bug after a guest is suspected to have brought the virus in to a function room last week. It has been confirmed that 127
cases of norovirus have been identified in guests who used the function room in the hotel at Greyfriars Road, Cardiff between 24 and 27 November 2010.
The hotel was made aware of the of the problem on Monday after a number of guests contacted staff after they had fallen ill over the weekend. The
suspected outbreak is now being investigated by Cardiff Council. A spokesperson said: "Cardiff Council’s Communicable Disease Team is currently
investigating an outbreak of suspected norovirus associated with the Park Plaza Hotel. "The suspected norovirus was notified to us by the hotel and
the investigation is being undertaken with the full co-operation of the hotel management," The norovirus bug is a highly contagious virus and can be
transmitted through contact with people who have got the virus of through contaminated food. It is estimated that norovirus typically affects between
600,000 and a million people in the UK each year and is common during the colder months of the year and is highly infectious. Symptoms include
vomiting and/or diarrhoea, and usually last between 24 and 48 hours. Most makes a full recovery. However, some people, usually the very young or
elderly, may become very dehydrated and require hospital treatment.
In January, the virus claimed up to 500,000 victims forcing hospital wards to close to try to stop the disease spreading. In a statement the hotel
said the area where the suspected outbreak occurred had been sanitised and any further risk of the infection spreading had been stopped. The statement
said: "The hotel only became aware of the spread on Monday morning when we were contacted by individuals who had fallen ill over the weekend. "We
immediately contacted senior officers from the city's environmental health department who assessed the situation and are continuing to work with us.
"Upon advice from environmental health officers, we have sanitised and quarantined the infected area, using an approved contractor, and have
eradicated any potential further risk." The statement added that the Hotel had not been notified of any further cases since last Monday and apologised
to the guests who had fallen ill. They said: "The hotel would like to stress there have been no other reports of the virus being contracted from any
other area of the hotel and we deeply regret the obvious discomfort to which some of our guests have been subjected." Executive Member for
Environment, Coun Margaret Jones, said: "Unfortunately, it is very difficult to prevent Norovirus occurring in the community. However, taking good
hygiene measures, like frequent hand washing, can reduce the spread of infection. "The Communicable Disease Team has worked with the hotel to ensure
remedial measures have been taken. They continue to monitor the situation closely."
Florida
The Miami-Dade Health Department said Monday night they have confirmed their first case of cholera. According to test results, an airline passenger
who arrived on a flight to Miami International Airport on Thanksgiving evening had contracted cholera in Haiti, the department said. The unidentified
man, believed to be a doctor, arrived on an American Airlines flight from neighboring Dominican Republic. He became ill during the flight and told
officials he had spent time working in Haiti. The man is recovering from the illness. Cholera is caused by a bacterial infection of the intestine that
causes severe dehydration. In some situations it is contagious -- in rare instances it has been transmitted though the carrier's contaminated hands
and vomit. Untreated cases can be fatal. Passengers from Haiti and the Dominican Republic are being scrutinized in Florida due to an outbreak in Haiti
which has killed hundreds. This marks the third confirmed case of cholera in Florida. In November, a Collier County woman who had returned from Haiti
was found to be suffering from the disease. She has recovered. A second case has been confirmed by health officials.
Ukraine
Flu infection is approaching epidemic levels in the former Soviet republic Ukraine and most of the victims are children, a senior health official said
Tuesday. More than 64,000 persons have been identified as having caught the flu since the season's first registered case in November, and almost 80
per cent of the victims have been school-age children, said Serhy Ryzhenko, chief of the Health Ministry's epidemics division. Flu strains present in
the outbreak include the influenza A subtype H1N1 "swine flu" virus and the A subtype H3N2 virus, according to laboratory testing cited by the report.
Infection rates increased more than 17 per cent since last week, he said, according to comments placed on the ministry web site. The Health Ministry
formally declares an epidemic in progress when more than one per cent of all persons in the total population are infected with a disease. The level of
flu infection is approaching, but has not yet passed that threshold, Ryzhenko said. The hardest-hit regions are in Ukraine's eastern Zaporizhia and
Poltava provinces. Ukraine's government on Friday closed nursery schools and most kindergartens nationwide to control the outbreak, and has added
staff to health clinics in areas of high infection. Swine flu caused 16 confirmed deaths in Ukraine during the disease's 2009 pandemic. The 2009
outbreak showed up failings in Ukraine's national health system, particularly vaccine shortages and poorly-trained staff.
Hungary
Reports reaching our service desk from reliable sources in the town of Fiq and its environs confirm the outbreak of cholera in the area. Many people
have died as a result of this outbreak of cholera. Up to the time of going to press with this report, there has been no emergency medical aid provided
to the dwellers of the Fiq town and its environs. The cholera outbreak in the area started about a month ago however due to the ongoing blockade of
the movement of both people and goods in all of Ogaden, it has been difficult to get accurate information from the area before now. Our reporter who
traveled to the area on foot indicated that the lack of clean drinking water and the availability of basic medical necessities such as glucose have
exacerbated the situation. . Our source indicated that many people who could have survived this cholera outbreak are dying because of the lack of
clean water.
Hungary - Update
At least 160 residents of two villages in Cebu province have reportedly been hit by a supposed typhoid fever, even as health authorities suspect a
contaminated water system as the cause. Radio dzBB's Cebu affiliate reported Wednesday at least 30 of the 160 residents from Poblacion and Sta.
Filomena village in Alegria town have been hospitalized. Local health authorities said the 160 residents showed symptoms of typhoid, including a
week-long fever, when they went to the town health center for checkup. The report said health authorities are now taking blood samples from the
affected residents to double-check if they were affected by typhoid. For its part, the Department of Health is studying the possibility of declaring
an outbreak of typhoid in the two villages. Alegria is a fourth-class town with a population of 21,699 people.
Tanzania
Four people died and 58 were hospitalised following a fresh outbreak of cholera in the eastern Tanzanian region of Morogoro, an official said
Wednesday. "Three of the deceased persons are members of the same family," Morogoro regional health officer, Cares Lyimo said. He said the first cases
in the area were reported two weeks ago and added that 58 people had since been admitted to hospital with cholera symptoms. Lyimo said water shortages
in the region, forcing residents to buy unsafe water from vendors, were to blame for the outbreak. The disease is caused by the bacterium Vibrio
cholerae and is spread by consuming contaminated food or water. Around 60 people died of cholera in Tanzania's northeastern Tanga region in September
and October.
Indonesia
The bird flu virus [avian A/(H5N1) influenza virus] has re-emerged. The Specific Diseases and Isolation Team at Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung has
confirmed a [human] case of influenza A/(H5N1) virus infection in a resident of Holis Street, Bandung. The source of the virus is unknown. A spokesman
stated that the team of doctors at the Sadikin Hospital had received confirmation today [Wed 8 Dec 2010] from the Agency for Health Development
Research of the Ministry of Health in Jakarta, which had examined a sample from the 21-year-old patient. The patient has been undergoing treatment in
an intensive care unit since Mon 22 Nov 2010. On arrival, the patient was experiencing severe pain, and according to a specialist in internal
medicine, the patient was exhibiting symptoms characteristic of bird flu patients. The symptoms of people with bird flu, following the incubation
period of 1-7 days, are similar to those of patients suffering from upper respiratory tract infection; namely, high fever up to temperatures beyond 38
C, sore throat, headache, sudden weakness, and in the most serious cases, pneumonia. The initial symptoms resemble those of the common cold.
The patient's condition has now gradually improved and assisted respiration has been terminated. The patient now has no fever and is lucid and with
only a residual cough. When the patient's breathing becomes normal, the patient will be discharged. The team of doctors has not been able to confirm
the source of the infection. But according to the team leader, the patient had been fond of eating cooked chicken. Bandung City Health Department
officials and the local Community Health Centre who have monitored the patient's living quarters and surroundings have not discovered anything that
might be the source of the virus. On Wed 8 Dec 2010, the Head of the Disease Monitoring service stated that none of the patient's relatives, other
house occupants and neighbours had contracted avian influenza virus infection. No poultry were kept in the patient's house, and there had been no
sudden deaths of poultry in the vicinity of the patient's home.
Uganda
A total of 13 people have been reported dead in Abim and Agago districts, following an outbreak of a strange disease in Abim. 20 cases have been
reported in Abim district, out of whom 8 have already died. In neighbouring Agago district, 5 cases have been reported in the sub counties of Omiya
P'Chua and Paimol, which border Abim district. Emmanuel Okech, an official from the Abim district health office, said out of the 20 cases, 8 have
died, 2 have been quarantined, and another 10 have been discharged after their conditions improved. According to Okech, the affected persons have high
fever, vomit blood, pass bloody stools, and also bleed from other openings like the nose and ears. "The victims usually die between 3 and 5 days and
are suspected to be highly contagious," Okech said. Last week [week ending 14 Nov 2010], a team from the World Health Organization and the Ministry of
Health went to Abim and are investigating the disease. According to Okech, samples were taken to the Uganda Virus Research Institute, but there is
still no clue as to what disease is affecting the people there.
"We were suspecting viral hemorrhagic infection, but results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute have ruled out Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa," Okech
said. He said samples from the affected persons have now been flown to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. On [Tue 16 Nov
2010], the district health officer of Agago district, Dr Emmanuel Otto, announced that 5 people had died in Paimol and Omiya P'Chua from infections
similar to those reported in Abim. Dr. Otto said he was also expecting a team of doctors from the World Health Organization and the Health Ministry in
Agago to go to the affected sub-counties and conduct tests to ascertain the nature of the disease. According to Emmanuel Okech, more than 10 percent
of patients treated in Abim Hospital are from neighboring Agago district, raising suspicions that the 5 who died in Agago could have contracted the
disease while they went for treatment in Abim Hospital. Meanwhile, authorities in Abim district have put up an isolation center for those suspected to
have contracted the disease.
Illinois
Four new cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, were reported to the Madison County Health Department this week, officials said Tuesday.
Pertussis is a respiratory illness that is highly contagious because it is so easily spread from person to person. The disease is transmitted by
people breathing in the bacteria from infected people who cough or sneeze. Debrah Knoll, personal health services manager for the Madison County
Health Department, said in a news release that symptoms start with a runny nose, sneezing, low-grade fever and a mild, occasional cough. After one or
two weeks, the coughing can become severe with numerous, rapid coughs that include the characteristic high-pitched "whooping " sound. The patient may
turn blue or even vomit during the coughing fit. The coughing attacks occur more frequently at night. Pertussis can be treated with a course of the
appropriate antibiotics. Unfortunately, many people do not realize they have pertussis until after they have exposed others. Pertussis can cause
life-threatening, even fatal, complications in young children, especially those younger than 1 year of age who are not fully vaccinated. Children are
vaccinated against pertussis at 2, 4, 6 and 15 months old, plus another dose before entering school at 4 to 6 years old. Many infants get pertussis
from infected older siblings, parents or caregivers. Although many people do not believe this illness still occurs, the national Centers for Disease
Control reported that nearly 19,000 cases of pertussis were reported in the United States last year, Knoll said. Vaccination is the best option for
countering this disease.
Fiji
The Ministry of Health is warning parents and guardians of a new viral illness, affecting children. The ministry says children generally get high
fever, rashes or blisters on the palm of their hands, soles of their feet and around the mouth with seizers in severe cases. Spokesperson Peni Namotu
says there has been 20-30 cases per month since October this year, with a handful of cases requiring admissions. “Viral illness can be mistaken for
chicken pox or scabies but parents need to seek medical attention if their children experience high fever with the peculiar rash especially if
seizures or fits occur.” He adds experts believe the illness is spread from person to person by direct contact. Namotu is advising the general
public to take preventative measures and visit the nearest health centre if any of the symptoms present themselves.
Denmark
Denmark is facing a nationwide pneumonia epidemic following a tenfold increase in the number of positive tests, local media reported Thursday, citing
medical experts. The experts said mycoplasma pneumonia, caused by bacteria, has been spreading rapidly among the Danish. "We have noticed that the
number of positive tests for mycoplasma pneumonia has greatly increased over time, and it has now reached epidemic proportions," said Kaare Moelbak,
director of the Danish National Serum Institute. This is the first time since 2005 that Denmark is hit by a bacterial pneumonia epidemic. "This
particular disease can occur from time to time, usually with five to six years of time interval. Mycoplasma pneumonia usually lasts longer than an
influenza epidemic. We estimate that the current epidemic will continue around three or four months," said Moelbak. Mycoplasma pneumonia, commonly
known as cold pneumonia in Denmark, has typical symptoms such as long-term cough, fever and chest pain. It most affects children aged five to 15 years
old and people in the 25-45 age group. "Although we call it cold pneumonia, one can still risk a fever from the pneumonia. However, the fever is
milder than in a normal pneumonia," he added.
Egypt
Dozens of children in Fayoum Governorate have contracted an unknown viral disease with symptoms similar to that of the common cold. They have been
detained in local hospitals. The General Hospital of Fayoum Governorate has notified the Department of Health in Fayoum Youm7 newspaper, quoting an
official source at Fayoum's Health Department, reported that dozens of children in Fayoum Governorate have contracted an illness with common cold-like
symptoms. They are not responding to treatment including several days of nutritional care in hospital. The official source added that this new type of
virus has not been identified, and reported that hospitals in different parts of the province have admitted 30-40 children daily who are suffering
from this so far undiagnosed disease. More than 200 children are now under treatment. The Directorate of Health in Fayoum is being urged to take
action and declare an emergency situation in anticipation of the increasing number of children affected by this disease.
Philippines
At least 160 residents of two villages in Cebu province have reportedly been hit by a supposed typhoid fever, even as health authorities suspect a
contaminated water system as the cause. Radio dzBB's Cebu affiliate reported Wednesday at least 30 of the 160 residents from Poblacion and Sta.
Filomena village in Alegria town have been hospitalized. Local health authorities said the 160 residents showed symptoms of typhoid, including a
week-long fever, when they went to the town health center for checkup. The report said health authorities are now taking blood samples from the
affected residents to double-check if they were affected by typhoid. For its part, the Department of Health is studying the possibility of declaring
an outbreak of typhoid in the two villages. Alegria is a fourth-class town with a population of 21,699 people.
Mongolia
A new, still unknown to the medical fraternity flu virus has been found in Mongolia. The symptoms of this influenza are similar to the so-called
‘bird’ and ‘swine’ flu viruses. The virus is classified as H3N2 strain. In Ulan Bator, already 17 cases of this influenza have been
registered. Young children are considered to be at greatest risk. Chief Public Relations Officer at National Research Center for Infectious Diseases
in Mongolia Chuluunbat Urtnasan explained that doctors currently do not know how to protect themselves from the virus H3N2. According to him, the main
attention should be paid to protecting the body from cold. Body weakened by cold body can be prone to be infected by this new type of virus, report
agencies. Chuluunbat Urtnasan has asked people to contact doctors for medical help at the very first symptoms of infection. He recommends to often
ventilate and do wet cleaning at at work and at home. In the absence of fever, the patients have been recommended to take heat procedures, and baths.
Source for all above:
hisz.rsoe.hu...
Fly Plague Killing Sheep
"Plagues of blowflies are killing sheep across Australia, as wet and humid conditions make livestock more susceptible to flystrike. Experts are
calling it a "fly wave", and the insects are rapidly multiplying thanks to the rainy weather. "
Source:
www.abc.net.au...
Mysterious Acholi disease is plague
Source:
www.newvision.co.ug...
"The ministry said they had confirmed that the strange sickness was plague, not a hemorrhagic fever as earlier thought. “It is controllable, though
fatal. We have sent another team to beef up the one we already had on the ground,” it added. The disease surveillance officer in Kitgum district,
Sr. Grace Agwang, said preliminary results from the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta showed that it was plague."
Strange disease could be plague
Source:
www.sundayvision.co.ug...&newsId=740159
"THE mysterious disease that has devastated parts of Acholi and Karamoja sub-regions for close to a month could be human plague. Kitgum district LC5
chairman, John Komakech Ogwok, quoting sources from the World Health Organisation, said on Friday evening that preliminary tests point at the plague.
“Information from the World Health Organisation says that the strange disease that has been disturbing us seems to be plague."
Bubonic Plague Suspected as Cause of Ugandan Outbreak That Has Killed 38
"Bubonic plague is suspected as the cause of a disease outbreak that has killed 38 people in northern Uganda in the past month, the Ministry of Health
said."
Source:
www.bloomberg.com... ml
Locusts hit Melbourne's CBD as plague continues
"Victoria's worst locust plague in 70 years continues its push into Melbourne, with sightings of the insects reported around the city during this
morning's humid weather."
Source:
www.theage.com.au...
Swine Flu returns to UK with speedier spread
Source:
news.carrentals.co.uk...
(Haiti outbreak related)
Haitian cholera pathogen closely related to ‘El Tor O1′ variant from South Asia
Source:
biomedme.com...edit on 11-12-2010
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