Health Knowledge

Plague is caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis and it is a natural epidemic focus on rodents. Under certain conditions, they infect humans through infected mice, infected fleas. Plague is contagious and high mortality. Plague can be divided into several kinds of pneumonic plague, such as bubonic plague, tonsil plague and others, etc.
    
Plague is transmitted by direct transmission, droplet transmission, media insects, and other means.
Primary pneumonic plague patients can spread virus through breath, talk, cough, sneezing and droplets.
  
In order to prevent plague, we should strictly control source of infection and protect the susceptible ones. During the plague prevention and treatment, it is important to disinfect, kill insects and mice, and isolate infections.

1. Patients suspected or confirmed should be immediately reported to emergency epidemic disease department. In the meantime, patients should be isolated and not allowed to be visited or visit others. Patients’ excreta should be disinfected thoroughly and the death should be cremated or buried. Contacts should be quarantined 9 days and those who have received vaccination, quarantine period should be extended to 12 days.

2. Eliminate animal infection source:
Monitor natural epidemic focus and control strictly disease; Carry out hygiene campaigns widely; Marmot is an important infection source in certain areas and should be killed to a large extent.

3. Cut off the route of transmission:
(1) depulization:depulization must be done thoroughly, spraying disinfectant to animals, including cats, dogs, livestock, etc.
(2) strengthen country transport quarantine: vessels, vehicles, aircraft, etc from foreign epidemic focus should be strictly quarantined, depulization, deratization, disinfection.

Recommended Products

1. Disinfectant powder
2. Effervescent disinfectant tablet

Disinfection Measures

1. Disinfection should be carried out after epidemic outbreak in time, at least once a day.
2. Activate chlorine dioxide disinfectant into the liquid≥ 1500mg/kg, then add water diluted to an appropriate concentration.