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China reports case of bubonic plague
While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Authorities in the Bayannur district raised the plague warning on Sunday, ordered residents not to hunt wild animals such as marmots and to send for treatment anyone with fever or showing other possible signs of infection.
Plague can be fatal in up to 90% of people infected if not treated, primarily with several types of antibiotics.
Pneumonic plague can develop from bubonic plague and results in a severe lung infection causing shortness of breath, headache and coughing.
China has largely eradicated plague, but occasional cases are still reported, especially among hunters coming into contact with fleas carrying the bacterium. The last major known outbreak was in 2009, when several people died in the town of Ziketan in Qinghai province on the Tibetan Plateau.
Along with the coronavirus, first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, China has dealt with African swine fever, which has devastated pig herds.
China has gone weeks without reporting a new death from the coronavirus, and on Monday reported just one new case of local infection, in the capital, Beijing.
3 Comments on "China reports case of bubonic plague"
Sissyfuss on Mon, 6th Jul 2020 9:04 am
Siberia in afire and ice at the poles is disappearing along with Trumps reelection possibilities and all the sleeping viruses contained in the not so perma permafrost are awakening to find a bounty of billions to attach to. Gaia will restore balance to the Earth through any means necessary.
Anonymouse on Mon, 6th Jul 2020 9:36 am
Thank goodness. I was worried we were going to run out of diseases to blame China for spreading to the world. But, thankfully, my concerns were misplaced. Just when it was clear to even the dimmest of wits, that the coronahoax was finally beginning to lose steam, along comes a blast from the past to keep the fear (of China) alive and kicking.
We now got the black death everyone! Talk about doubling down. Maybe trump will call it the Red Death and slap another 20% tariff on their imports.
Richard Guenette on Wed, 8th Jul 2020 11:53 am
The so-called Third World nations aren’t that poor as the Western “charities” want their viewers to believe. People who live in those countries are able to get by on less, not caring what the so-called First World countries have (flat screen TVs, EVs). A poor person in America would be considered rich as opposed to someone who lives on a dollar a day. Money doesn’t buy happiness.
As an old saying goes “The best things in life are free”.