The plague is threatening us. How to prevent the plague for our health?

The daily preventive measures are mainly to reduce the possibility of people being bitten by infected fleas or to minimize the possibility of contact with pneumonic plague patients. The specific method is as follows:

1, reducing the effective area

Avoid traveling or activities in epidemic areas and contact with rodents (such as rodents and marmots);

2. Avoid close contact with plague patients.

When contacting with patients who may be infected with pneumonic plague, try to keep a contact distance of more than 1 m, wear a mask and wash your hands frequently;

3. Take pest control measures

Take necessary measures to prevent flea bites, use insect repellent preparations, and commonly used insect repellents can generally drive away fleas;

4. If you have been to the epidemic area, you should keep measuring your body temperature for 2 weeks.

If you suddenly have any symptoms such as fever, chills, lymph node pain, cough, hemoptysis or bleeding, you should seek medical attention immediately and inform the doctor of your travel history in the epidemic area. Early antibiotic treatment is effective.

Extended data

The spread of plague

1, source of infection

Animals and patients are infected with pneumonic plague, and the host animals are generally rodents and wild carnivores, such as Marmota grey, Marmota red, Marmota Himalaya and Rattus flavipectus.

2. Transmission routing

1) The mode of transmission of flea bites is rat-flea-human, that is, fleas bite sick rats and then bite people, or the skin is infected with marmots or other infected animals, which often causes bubonic plague or septicemia plague.

2) the mode of transmission between people, that is, healthy people contact with pneumonic plague patients and then become infected through respiratory inhalation. The main infection in this way is pneumonic plague.

3. Susceptible population

People are usually susceptible to plague. People engaged in field work or hunters and herders who hunt and peel marmots in epidemic areas are more likely to contact infected animals, and the possibility of infection is higher than that of the general population.

People's Daily Online-Beijing confirmed that two plague patients have been properly treated.