A city in China has reportedly been sealed off after one resident died from bubonic plague, but this way of trying to contain the disease is puzzling to infectious disease experts, who say the response seems extreme given the information released about the case. According to news reports, Chinese officials have blocked off parts of Yumen, a city in northwest China, preventing about 30,000 of the city's people from leaving. A man in the city became ill after he handled a dead marmot (a large wild rodent), and died last week from bubonic plague. No other cases of the plague have been reported, according to the Guardian. About 150 people who had contact with the plague victim have been placed under quarantine. Today the illness is treatable with antibiotics, the CDC says. Now there are fewer than 5,000 cases of plague per year worldwide, with most cases occurring in Africa, according to the Mayo Clinic. [Pictures of a Killer: A Plague Gallery] There are several forms of plague. Bubonic plague, which the man in Yumen had, causes swelling of the lymph nodes, and it cannot be spread from person to person. However, if the disease spreads to the lungs, the person can develop pneumonic plague, which can be transmitted from person to person if a sick individual coughs droplets into the air, and another person inhales the droplets. But person-to-person transmission is rare, and usually requires close contact with the infected individual, the CDC says.....snip~ http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-officials-seal-off-plague-city-puzzling-us-080446975.html Seems to me they have never fully eliminated these plagues.....still is this over the top. Seal off a city and quarantine about 150 people out of 30k? What say ye?
In China there's less of an outcry in the country as individual rights are stunted. They can do this, and who cares? It's all in the name of greater good for everyone. Who cares about the individual? There may be a hidden agenda behind this. Or it's just hysteria.
Bubonic plague my ass. There is only one reason they would quarantine an entire city..........the (*)(*)(*)(*)ing zombie apocalypse has begun.
