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    <SMALL>Map showing the location of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region</SMALL>
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    <SMALL>Location of Yulin City jurisdiction in Guangxi</SMALL>
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    <SMALL>Police: Guangxi Yulin poultry infected with Bacillus anthracis" untrue</SMALL>
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    <SMALL>At 16:14 on December 12th 2013 Source: People's Daily </SMALL>
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    People Beijing December 12 (by Tian Xue) Recently, a message that says "Bobai Longtan, Yamaguchi and other places have a lot of poultry infected with anthrax." Yesterday, Guangxi Yulin network security detachment official microblogging "Jade shelterbelts police" preliminary determination indicates that this message is a rumor, rumor remind you not to pass rumors.

    "Jade shelterbelts police", said: "Recently, some Internet users in the microblogging, the letter said Bobai Longtan, Yamaguchi and other places have a lot of poultry infected with Bacillus anthracis, Longtan and other local governments have held an emergency meeting, urging the public to temporarily do not eat chicken, duck other foods. by the police to Bobai County Animal Husbandry Bureau, and other government departments to verify longtanzhen initially judged as rumor, please do not spread rumors pass rumors, such as the loss of others, causing panic in the community, or other serious consequences, must legal responsibility! "

    Reporter Search "anthrax" keyword discovery, network also spread the "Liaoning to Hangzhou 5570 poultry infected with Bacillus anthracis" message. Previously, Hangzhou Bureau of Agriculture denied. In addition, the rumor spread in different provinces to be known, and the Health Department of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control, Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture have said publicly in the media:. "This is an unfounded rumor."

    Related Links: How do people infected with anthrax

    According to the China Disease Prevention and Control Center website, Anthrax is a zoonotic infection that occurs mainly in cattle and sheep in the middle of the grass-eating animals, usually through contact with sick animals or infected animal products. After the most part, always in the cattle and sheep grazing herbivores ingested spores cause infection, human contact with infected animal meat, fur or illness of the blood and other exudates discharged from the livestock items contaminated before they get infected.

    There are three main ways of human anthrax infection. After contact with skin infections, if the skin is exposed to pollutants will enter the body through tiny spores on the skin wound. Oral infections, mainly due to the ingestion of contaminated food and infection, and eating habits and food processing. Inhalation infection, inhalation of dust contaminated with anthrax spores and aerosols can cause pulmonary anthrax, under normal circumstances direct inhalation infection is rare.

    And the route of infection corresponds anthrax also there are three main clinical types: cutaneous anthrax, and intestinal anthrax, pulmonary anthrax, anthrax can sometimes cause sepsis and meningitis. Cutaneous anthrax is the most common of which accounted for more than 95% of all cases.

    Skin anthrax becomes more common in the face, neck, shoulders, hands and legs and other exposed parts of the skin; mainly for local skin edema, rash or pimples, blisters, ulcers and eschar; pain is not obvious, a little itching, no abscess formation. Timely treatment mortality is less than 1%.

    Pulmonary anthrax beginning of "flu-like" symptoms, manifested as fever, fatigue, malaise, myalgia, cough, usually lasting about 48 hours. Then suddenly develop into an acute illness, respiratory distress, gas Ji Chuan-ming, coughing, cyanosis, hemoptysis. Coma and death can occur quickly, the mortality rate of up to 90%.

    Intestinal anthrax may manifest as acute enteritis or acute abdomen type. Acute enteritis type can occur at the onset of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. Type of acute abdomen in patients with severe systemic symptoms, persistent vomiting and diarrhea, bloody stools row, bloating, abdominal pain, often complicated by sepsis and septic shock. If not treated, can often lead to death.

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