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Brucellosis outbreak in China as thousands are infected after factory leak – 7NEWS.com.au
People began reporting infections in November, and the outbreak quickly accelerated.
Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year.
The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that 3,245 people had contracted the disease brucellosis.
The disease is often caused by contact with livestock carrying the bacteria Brucella.
Another 1,401 people have tested as preliminarily positive, though there have been no fatalities reported, the …
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