China: Thousands of people test positive for brucellosis, linked to biopharmaceutical company leak in 2019

Published on September 21, 2020

The Health Commission of Lanzhou in Gansu province in northeastern China  announced that 3,245 people have been confirmed positive for the bacterial disease, brucellosis linked an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year. Outbreak News Today

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