How to prevent plague?

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

2. Avoid close contact with plague patients.

When contacting 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, and commonly used insect repellent can generally drive away fleas;

If you have been to the epidemic area, you should continue to check your 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

In order to infect animals and patients with pneumonic plague, the host animals are usually 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 septic plague.

2) Human-to-human transmission mode, that is, healthy people are infected by inhalation through the respiratory tract after contacting patients with pneumonic plague. The main infection in this way is pneumonic plague.

3. Susceptible population

People are usually susceptible to plague. People who work in the field or hunters and herders who hunt and strip 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.