Bubonic plague in China: Here's all you need to know about infamous 'Black Death'

Chinese health officials have sounded an alarm over reports of bubonic plague in China’s Inner Mongolia as world suffers from coronavirus pandemic. On July 1, state-run Xinhua news ncy reported two confirmed cases of bubonic plague in Khovd province in western Mongolia after lab results confirmed same.

A 27-year-old resident and his 17-year-old bror were diagsed with bubonic plague after y ate marmot meat, health officials reportedly said, warning people t to eat marmot meat. Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease transmitted to animals and humans by infected fleas from rodents.

Symptoms

According to World Health Organisation (WHO), bubonic plague, infamously kwn as Black Death, usually results from bite of infected fleas, leing to development of Lymphenitis in drain lymph des. Patients suffering from bubonic plague develop sudden onset of fever, heache, chills, and weakness and one or more swollen, tender and painful lymph des (called buboes). 

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns that bacteria can spre to or parts of body if patient is t treated with appropriate antibiotics. Fleas get infected by feeding on rodents infected with bacterium Yersinia pestis and transmit plague bacteria to humans and or mammals during a subsequent feeding.

Human-to-human transmission?

While a human-to-human transmission is t possible in bubonic plague, pneumonic plague requires direct and close contact for transmission. incubation period for bubonic plague is 2-6 days after being infected and if disease left untreated, plague bacteria can inve bloodstream where y rapidly multiply and spre throughout body and cause a severe and often fatal condition called septicemic plague.

“Untreated bubonic plague can also progress into an infection of lungs, causing pneumonic plague. If plague patients are t given specific antibiotic rapy, all forms of plague can progress rapidly to death,” says CDC.

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