Brucellosis, a bacterial disease with flu-like symptoms, has infected more than 6000 people in a single outbreak in northwestern China. During Lanzhou government press conference, “the government has tested as many as 55,725 people in the city, of which 6,620 have tested positive for brucellosis.”

Humans get brucellosis with flu-like symptoms through direct contact with infected animals, by eating or drinking contaminated animal products, or by inhaling airborne agents, “said World Health Organization.”

According to a statement from Lanzhou’s health commission dated September, the outbreak originated at a biopharmaceutical factory owned by China Animal Husbandry Industry Co.

The brucellosis vaccine production workshop was shut down in December last year and was dismantled in October, according to Global Times. 

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