Peru suffers deadly outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague
An outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in Peru has killed a 14-year-old boy and infected at least 31 people in a northern coastal province.
一個在秘魯的淋巴腺鼠疫和肺鼠疫爆發，在北部的沿海省份已殺死一名14歲男童和感染至少31人。
Published: 10:46PM BST 03 Aug 2010
The plague outbreak is close to Chicama beach, a popular draw for tourists to Peru. Photo: ALAMY疫症的爆發是近在奇卡馬海灘，一個受歡迎的地方吸引遊客到秘魯。圖文：ALAMY
Oscar Ugarte, the health minister, said authorities were screening sugar and fish meal exports from Ascope province, located about 325 miles north-west of Lima.
Chicama beach, a popular draw for tourists to Peru, is not far away.
Mr Ugarte said the boy, who had Down syndrome, died of bubonic plague on July 26.
He said on Monday that most of the infections were bubonic plague, with four cases of pneumonic plague.
The former is transmitted by flea bites, the latter by airborne contagion. The disease is curable if treated early with antibiotics.
The first recorded plague outbreak in Peru was in 1903. The last, in 1994, killed 35 people.
The bubonic plague is believed to have been the cause of the Black Death, which swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing one third of the population, or more than 25 million people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/7925151/Peru-suffers-deadly-outbreak-of-bubonic-and-pneumonic-plague.html
秘魯嚴寒數百人凍死
(明報)2010年7月25日 星期日 17:35
南半球近日出現罕見的寒冷天氣，其中秘魯 政府周六宣布多個地區進入緊急狀態，據悉已有數百人冷死。
在極低冷空氣吹襲下，秘魯大部分地區的氣溫已降至多年罕見的低溫。南部一些地區的氣溫甚至只有零下23度，首都利馬也只有8.8度，創造了近50年的最低紀錄。全國24個行政區中已有16個進入緊急狀態，其中海拔3000米以上的貧窮鄉村地區最受影響。(綜合)
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