(CNN) Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday.

The case was discovered in the city of Bayannur, located northwest of Beijing, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. A hospital alerted municipal authorities of the patient's case on Saturday. By Sunday, local authorities had issued a citywide Level 3 warning for plague prevention, the second lowest in a four-level system.

The warning will stay in place until the end of the year, according to Xinhua.

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, is one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, it killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe.

Bubonic plague, which is one of plague's three forms, causes painful, swollen lymph nodes, as well as fever, chills, and coughing.

Bayannur health authorities are now urging people to take extra precautions to minimize the risk of human-to-human transmission, and to avoid hunting or eating animals that could cause infection.

"At present, there is a risk of a human plague epidemic spreading in this city. The public should improve its self-protection awareness and ability, and report abnormal health conditions promptly," the local health authority said, according to state-run newspaper China Daily.

Bayannur authorities warned the public to report findings of dead or sick marmots -- a type of large ground squirrel that is eaten in some parts of China and the neighboring country Mongolia, and which have historically caused plague outbreaks in the region.

The marmot is believed to have caused the 1911 pneumonic plague epidemic, which killed about 63,000 people in northeast China. It was hunted for its fur, which soared in popularity among international traders. The diseased fur products were traded and transported around the country -- infecting thousands along the way.

Though that epidemic was contained within a year, marmot-related plague infections have persisted decades later. Just last week, two cases of bubonic plague were confirmed in Mongolia -- brothers who had both eaten marmot meat, according to Xinhua.

Last May, a couple in Mongolia died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, thought to be a folk remedy for good health. Two more people got pneumonic plague -- another form of the disease, which infects the lungs -- months later across the border in Inner Mongolia.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/06/asia/china-mongolia-bubonic-plague-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

Mad oo

tayebest:
Mad oo

why the teeth bro?

Seems like you don’t understand what bubonic plaque (Black death) is all about

Amotolongbo:
why the teeth bro?

Seems like you don’t understand what bubonic plaque (Black death) is all about

Another mad ooo!

Is like China is just manufacturing sickness


Or paying for the manufactured ones.....

Seems China is cursed? Or why are the major deadly pandemics coming from their region of recent?

Wetin China do like this

This should be contain as soon as possible, all hands should be on deck, China should allow outside bodies to help them, all their communist politics won’t help, keeping records and figures from the public is evil and wicked, the Chinese virus would have been contained if China were truthful with everything that happened in Wuhan...

It comes from CHY-NA

Another disease update from the communists

China and virus shaa.
And niggas here who would eat anything.

Fvv

Again?

Must this people eat everything?

China on da beat

The powers that be, needs to come and relocate China to outer space, the need to be alone for a while.

This country is becoming very terrible.

Na only una waka come? From corona virus to bubonic plague?.

We go run for una comot earth?

They are mad in china

China and disease is like 5 & 6

What is exactly wrong with these Chinese
SARS---China
Corona---China
and now this

Don't they have other meat in China except snakes,rodents and frog

Chinese nationals should be banned from leaving china

China easy na.. Haba! We are still battlng with your last album from 2019 and you're already in the studio again. Kadan! kadan!.

Can you imagine?!


What is wrong with these people.

It's hightime the FG halted every incoming aviation activities.
Small time now, you'll hearing about an index case but God no go shame Us.

FAKE NEWS....
do you know they have announced like 3 viruses after corona?
they even said one is more deadly than corona.
........

God no go shame us...

E be like say dem swear for China ..abi

Ok

China to the world

Only China

Useless country

For nigerians that will eat any rat or animal they see in their backyard, continue.