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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/asia/china-brucellosis-outbreak-intl-hnk/index.html
Bacterial outbreak infects thousands after factory leak in China
By Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN
Updated 3:07 AM ET, Thu September 17, 2020
(CNN)Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.
The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that 3,245 people had contracted the disease brucellosis, which is often caused by contact with livestock carrying the bacteria brucella.
Another 1,401 people have tested as preliminarily positive, though there have been no fatalities reported, the city's Health Commission said. In total, authorities have tested 21,847 people out of the city's 2.9 million population...
Bacterial outbreak infects thousands after factory leak in China
By Jessie Yeung and Eric Cheung, CNN
Updated 3:07 AM ET, Thu September 17, 2020
(CNN)Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.
The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that 3,245 people had contracted the disease brucellosis, which is often caused by contact with livestock carrying the bacteria brucella.
Another 1,401 people have tested as preliminarily positive, though there have been no fatalities reported, the city's Health Commission said. In total, authorities have tested 21,847 people out of the city's 2.9 million population...