2.4 Million People Are On China’s Target Database; Vaccine Plant Leak in China Sickens Thousands

In China, a leak from a vaccine plant has left thousands of local residents with chronic illnesses. Nikkei reports that in Northwest China’s Lanzhou city, a biopharmaceutical plant exposed residents to an animal-borne bacterial disease that’s highly contagious and difficult to treat, known as brucellosis. The cause of the outbreak was contaminated exhaust from the Lanzhou Biopharmaceutical Plant, which is under the state-owned China Animal Husbandry Industry. Symptoms of the disease include recurring feve