Friday, April 17, 2020

Inner Mongolia has hantavirus epidemic

Reporter : Li Yun
Editor : Li Quan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/17/a102825108.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image : Hantavirus is spread by virus yersinia pestis from rats. Courtesy of Pixabay.

There is hantavirus ("black death") epidemic in Inner Mongolia. The Epoch Times has exclusively obtained information from several internal government documents of Inner Mongolia, showing that the epidemic this time has a wide coverage.

On 13 April 2020, the Comprehensive Disease Prevention and Control Centre of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region issued a plague outbreak report showing that since the first hantavirus outbreak in the autonomous region this year is first reported on 15 March 2020, Inner Mongolia has discovered animals in 21 outbreaks in 10 flag counties in 4 allied cities in the region. During the epidemic, 31 strains of hantavirus were isolated and 5 positive sera were detected.

Documents from the Ximeng Endemic Disease Control Center on 26 March 2020 showed that a dead rat was found in the Sunite Youqi of the League, carrying fleas. On 31 March and 1-4 April 2020, the Inner Mongolia Zhuanghuang Banner Disease Control Center found dead plague rats in different local areas.

On 24 March 2020, the Xilin Gol League Plague Prevention and Control Emergency Leading Group issued the notice of "Xilin Gol League 2020 Plague Prevention and Control Work Plan" to formulate relevant plans to deal with plague locally.

However, the CCP official media did not report any plague outbreaks in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia.

The Xinhuanet of the Communist Party of China recently reported that the Hulunbeier grasslands in Inner Mongolia have begun to use large-scale rat poisons to prevent and control rodent damage. It is planned to prevent and control rodent damage by an area of ​​more than 6 million mu, mainly through agricultural aircraft spraying to poison rats.

At present, the plague in Inner Mongolia has not yet infected people on a large scale, but because SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading, this hantavirus epidemic may still trigger a biosafety crisis.

In early November last year, two patients in Inner Mongolia were diagnosed with hantavirus and were sent to Beijing for treatment.

At that time, the stations, train stations, airports, and hospitals in Inner Mongolia were all checking the body temperature. Some netizens in Inner Mongolia left a message on Weibo: "The plague is really serious. As long as you enter the hospitals, you must go through temperature checks!"

A villager in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia revealed that the hantavirus outbreak had occurred locally as early as August or September 2019. In the wilderness and prairie, there are many rat pits. When eating, there are one or two rats running at home.

In September last year, a case of septic hantavirus outbreak also broke out in Gansu Province, located in Jiuquan City.

The above case disclosed by the Chinese Communist Party on 25 September refers to a patient suffering from bubonic plague after eating a hare with patient Liu Nan and three workers. Liu Nan went to Huade County Hospital, dozens of kilometers away, and was diagnosed with bubonic plague after seeking medical treatment.

Within 2 hours after Liu Nan's diagnosis, the Huade County Hospital reported the case to the municipal health department, and isolated 20 medical personnel who were in close contact with him, including the deputy director who conducted the first diagnosis.

In November last year, nearly 200 acres of land in Inner Mongolia were sprayed with poison. Rescue-based Huabin Airlines posted on Weibo that the airline dispatched four helicopter teams to the Xilin Gol grassland for medicine and rodent control.

The Central News Agency quoted the news that in December 2019, more than 300 villages in northern provinces such as Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Liaoning, and Jilin were completely locked down. There are armed police stationing at points of entry.

Hantavirus  is a serious infectious disease and belongs to the family of zoonotic diseases. It is caused by the plague bacillus and is called the "black death". The most important infection of hantavirus is respiratory transmission, which is clinically manifested as high fever, swollen lymph nodes, bleeding tendency, and special inflammation of the lungs.

Types of hantavirus plague : bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, plague septicemia. Pneumonic plague and septicemia plague have a case fatality rate of almost 100%. The most devastating epidemics recorded in history are related to hantavirus.

Justinian rat plague disappeared from the middle of the 6th century to the 8th century, killing hundreds of millions of lives in Europe and Asia; and the plague that broke out from the middle of the 14th century, 300 years before and after, caused the death of one third to half of the population on the European mainland.

The third plague epidemic began in the second half of the 19th century, starting in Yunnan and Mumbai, and finally converging in Beiman, where it broke out. Later, there was the plague in Shanxi, the second plague in Northeast China, and the plague in other parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Africa. It did not disappear after the 1930s. Tens of millions of people have died of hantavirus globally.



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