What symptom does person get plague to have?

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Yersinia pestis is a severe infectious disease which is mainly transmitted by rat fleas. It is a kind of natural focus disease which is widely prevalent among wild rodents. After the bacteria invade the skin, they usually reach the local lymph nodes through lymphatic vessels, causing primary lymphadenitis and inflammatory reaction of surrounding tissues. What symptom does person get plague to have? Let's talk about it

What symptom does person get plague to have?

The initial symptoms and signs were fever, chills, discomfort, head and limb pain, nausea, and sore throat. Lymphadenitis was found in the lymph nodes where the fleas were first bitten. The affected lymph nodes were fever, swelling, redness, softening, and suppuration.

Glandular type. Most of them are found in the early stage of epidemic. Shivering, high fever, headache, fatigue, body ache, occasionally nausea, vomiting, irritability, skin ecchymosis, bleeding. At the time of onset, the lymph nodes in the drainage area of flea bite were swollen and painful, which developed rapidly and reached the peak on the second to fourth day. Inguinal lymph nodes were most frequently involved, followed by axillary, cervical and submandibular lymph nodes.

Due to the severe inflammation of lymph nodes and surrounding tissues, the patient was forced into a forced position. If not treated in time, the enlarged lymph nodes will fester and burst rapidly, and die of severe toxemia, secondary pneumonia or sepsis within 3-5 days. The glandular swelling gradually dissipated or the wound healed and recovered.

matters needing attention

Medical personnel entering the epidemic area must be vaccinated and can only enter the epidemic area after two weeks. When working, they must wear protective clothing, masks, hats, gloves, glasses, rubber shoes and isolation clothes. After contacting with patients, they can take one of the following drugs for prevention, tetracycline 2G daily, four times; Sulfadiazine 2 g daily, 4 times; Or streptomycin 1g daily, divided into 1-2 times intramuscular injection for 6 days.