Bubonic plague in China

Another Pandemic from China? No

Bubonic Plague

https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/plague/en/

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/faq/index.html

What is plague?

Rodents and humans

2-6 day incubation

50 – 60% fatality

Yersinia pestis bacteria

How it spreads
Person gets bitten by a flea that is infected

Direct contact with infected tissues or fluids, before or after death

Inhaling respiratory droplets after close contact with cats and humans with pneumonic plague

Presentations

Bubonic plague (infected flee bits)

Sudden onset of fever

Headache

Chills

Weakness

One or more swollen, tender and painful lymph nodes (called buboes)

Septicemic plague, (bites of infected fleas, handling an infected animal)

Shock

Bleeding into the skin and other organs

Skin and other tissues may turn black and die, especially on fingers, toes, and the nose

Pneumonic plague (inhaling infectious droplets from infected people)

Rapidly developing pneumonia

Shortness of breath

Chest pain

Cough

CDC
7 cases per year in the UK

History

Yersinia pestis, finds from the Late Bronze Age

524 Plague of Justinian

1348 black death

1665 great plague of London

Third pandemic, 1850s to 1904