Gert van der Hoek
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A photo of a Western child tourist with marmots (ground squirrels) in China
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08/08/14
On the situation with pneumonic plague in China
According to the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the northwestern Gansu Province of China in July 2014 reported cases of pneumonic plague.
Infection occurred in contact with the Himalayan marmot. Delays in seeking medical care caused the patient's death. According to the Ministry of Health of China experts delivering a package of anti-epidemic measures aimed at preventing the spread of infection, and take on the registration of persons exposed to risk of infection quarantined city Yuymen in Gansu Province, during which it is forbidden to cross the border.
The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare urges the Russian citizens to refrain from traveling to these areas of China to the removal of restrictions announced.
In the Russian Federation of plague are not registered. However, there is likely to drift plague, primarily from neighboring countries Russia - Mongolia, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, with which Russia has close ties, as well as from other countries around the world where there are epidemiologically active natural foci of this and anthropurgic disease.
The territory of the Ryazan region possible introduction of infection by migrant workers (annually stays from 15 to 20 thousand.), Russian citizens traveling abroad located for tourism purposes (hunting, fishing) or business travel in the territory of the autonomous natural foci of plague (Trans-Caucasus and the Caucasus, Volga and Ural et al.).
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More details: ProMED - 2014-07-18 ; PLAGUE - CHINA: (GANSU) PNEUMONIC, FATALITY
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