Thousands of people in northwest China’s Lanzhou city have tested positive for a bacterial infection. The outbreak was caused by a leak at a state-owned biopharmaceutical company making animal vaccines last year.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020
Key-Points
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that mainly infects cattle, swine, goats, sheep and dogs. Humans can get infected if they come in direct contact with infected animals or by eating or drinking contaminated animal products or by inhaling airborne agents.
Most cases of the disease are caused by ingesting unpasteurised milk or cheese from infected goats or sheep.
Symptoms of the disease include fever, sweats, malaise, anorexia, headache and muscle pain.
Human to human transmission of the virus is rare.