Search

In Bornheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, the 50,000 residents have been required to boil their tap water since Friday due to proven E. coli bacteria in the drinking water, while the authorities investigate further water samples and have ordered chlorination for disinfection. #Ecoli #Trinkwasser #Bornheim (translated)

Paul Brandenburg wrote that lung plague is a bacterial infectious disease known for a long time and is now well treatable and curable with antibiotics. He called the term "Russian plague" absurd propaganda; it is equally absurd to stir up fear of a possible pandemic. #Gesundheit #Infektionen #Antibiotika (translated)

Edward Blom wrote that according to a post, there was a risk that it involved an antibiotic-resistant plague strain. He believed that politicians should immediately close the borders or impose quarantine requirements, as the bacteria could spread to all countries before it was fully mapped, in his opinion. Blom also wrote that Russia would likely not give other countries any advance information and called for Swedish production of antibiotics and vaccines. He described the privatization of the pharmaceutical industry as madness. #antibiotika #pest #hälsa (translated)

In his contribution, Marek Štefan described the case of a worker from the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute for Siberia and the Far East, who, according to local media, was hospitalized with severe pneumonia after a test tube containing the plague pathogen broke and died on Thursday. The head of Buryatia, Alexei Tsydenov, according to Štefan, stated that the woman died of an unspecified form of the plague; nearly 200 people were under medical supervision, according to local media. Štefan explained that the Yersinia pestis bacteria, in his view, is transmitted in nature between rodents and fleas, and it primarily reaches humans through flea bites or contact with an infected animal. According to him, the plague still exists in Africa, especially in Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Asia, and in the western United States, where several hundred cases are reported each year. He distinguished bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms; he identified the latter as the most severe and stated that without treatment, it is almost always fatal. According to Štefan, pneumonic plague spreads through droplets during close contact, typically with a patient in the late stage of the disease. He added that the bacteria quickly dies outside the host and that the disease can be treated with common antibiotics, with resistance being extraordinarily rare in his opinion. People after risky contact, according to his contribution, receive a seven-day course of preventive antibiotics. He classified laboratory infections as rare today when the necessary precautions are observed. He also stated that there is no evidence of the possible use of the bacteria for bioterrorism in the current context. He called the risk to the Czech Republic zero and recommended following official sources, not Russian information channels. #mor #zdraví #epidemie (translated)

In Russia, a scientist has died who likely accidentally broke a test tube while working with live bacteria, leading to concerns about a possible outbreak of the plague; however, authorities deny this connection and describe the situation as stable. #mor #infekce #protiepidemickáopatření (translated)

In Siberia, the death of a young lab technician following an accident with pneumonic plague bacteria caused panic, leading to quarantine measures and attention from the White House, while local authorities insist that the situation is under control and the woman did not have plague. #mor #Irkutsk #epidemie (translated)

The State Health and Food Inspection warns against the consumption of a certain batch of walnut salad from the manufacturer MASO WEST, in which a dangerous listeria bacteria was found, threatening health, especially pregnant women and individuals with weakened immune systems. #Listerióza #SALÁT #SZPI (translated)