Brucellosis Outbreak in China
- Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the health commission of Lanzhou City in China announced that a leak in a biopharmaceutical company last year caused an outbreak of brucellosis disease. Without any reported fatalities, more than 3,000 people had been infected with the disease.
- It said that in the process of producing a veterinary vaccine for the disease between July 24 and August 20, 2019, the factory used expired disinfectants that caused incomplete sterilisation of waste gas. This waste gas, which was carrying the disease-causing virus, subsequently formed aerosols as a result of which numerous people were exposed.
Brucellosis
- It is a bacterial ....
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