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Original Post Date: 2007-12-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Adriana
Namwala, near popular tourist region in southern Zambia, now closed off by health authorities due to suspected pneumatic plague outbreak –
30/11/2007 Lusaka, Zambia, Africa – A mysterious disease, which broke out in the southern region of Zambia, killing four people and sickening at least 60, is now suspected to be pneumonic plague, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
Ministry of Health spokesman Canicius Banda said ‘preliminary findings’ indicate that the disease that has killed four people and affected more than 60 patients ‘could be pneumonic plague but the findings were not yet conclusive. ‘
“Our preliminary findings point to pneumonia plague,” Banda said.
Namwala district is the traditional area of the Ba-Ila tribe – close relatives of the more numerous surrounding Tonga tribe. It covers an area of about 10,000 square kilometers. It has some 91,000 residents. The town itself has a population of some 5,000 people.
Other major settlement areas in the district are Kabulamwanda, Muchila, Maala, Mbeza and Chitongo. 90% of the population is rural based.
satellite map:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&q=namwala(43)+zambia&oe=UTF-8&ll=-15.755249,26.455078&spn=0.149352,0.2314&t=h&z=12&iwloc=addr&om=1
It has two well-provisioned health-care clinics which concentrate on TB-AIDS management, with equipment funded by the Danish government. The southern Zambian town lies near Livingstone, the most popular tourist spot from which to visit Victoria Falls and the Zambezi river. http://www.namwala.com/br>
Background of Pneumatic Plague:
Pneumatic Plague is carried in the gut of rodents’ fleas. It spreads among humans by droplets in respiratory secretions – exactly as does Tuberculosis.
It first appears as symptoms commonly associated with the common cold. The first and second-generation of plague victims usually are not aware there is anything significantly wrong with them.
Given the plague’s typical incubation period of as much as 1-6 days, but typically 2-4 days, the plague would already be an epidemic before the first patients began reporting to their doctors and hospitals for care.
http://www.globalterrorism101.com/PlagueinNYC.html
Banda said the movement of people from Namwala district has since been banned to contain the disease, which also showed symptoms of vomiting and backache.
Medical experts have begun spraying all the houses in the area to get rid of fleas and rodents suspected to be spreading the disease.
The government also urged people in Namwala to be calm after word went round that the disease could be the deadly Ebola virus, prompting panic. “We have carried out the tests and it is not Ebola. People should not panic, the situation is under control,” Health Minister Brian Chituwo said.
Pneumonic plague, which is fatal if left untreated (with antibiotics, to which many of the region’s AIDS-infected patients are resistant however) develops when plague bacteria infect the lungs, and can cause a rapid public health emergency due to its high degree of human-to-human contagion.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2230595,00.html
The southern Zambian health authorities may have stopped the disease in time: traditionally medicine treats the plague with quarantine and antibiotics, and if caught in the first eighteen hours of infection 50% to 60% of victims will recover.
“However, the initial victims do not begin appearing at medical facilities until 3-7 days after their infection, and chances of recovery are almost nonexistent by then. Untreated patients with Pneumatic or Septicemic Plague have a traditional mortality rate of nearly 100%.
Advanced victims of plague require extensive medical interventions such as ventilator support. With massive numbers of victims, extensive medical intervention equipment and drugs are quickly overwhelmed.
Pneumatic Plague spreads by droplets in respiratory secretions and first appears as symptoms commonly associated with the common cold.
In the past, the first and second generation of plague victims were usually not aware there was anything significantly wrong with them until it was too late.
Given the plagues typical incubation period of as much as 1-6 days, but typically 2-4 days the plague would already be an epidemic before the first patients began reporting to their doctors and hospitals for care, according to a hypothetical US Army bioterrorism-warfare scenario.
http://www.globalterrorism101.com/PlagueinNYC.html
Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2230595,00.html