A village in China has been sealed off after a resident died from bubonic plague, authorities in the country have said.

Daily disinfection of homes has been ordered in Suji Xincun, a tiny settlement in the Inner Mongolia region.

It has not been revealed how the villager came to have contracted the disease, but health officials in the nearby city of Baotou said no one else has yet tested positive for it.

Nine close contacts and 26 secondary contacts of the patient have been quarantined and found negative for the illness, the Baotou Municipal Health Commission revealed in a statement on Thursday.

Damao Banner, the district where the village is located, has also been put on level three alert for plague prevention, the second lowest in a four-level system.

It is the first death – and only the second case – of bubonic plague China has confirmed this year. The previous case was discovered in July in Bayannur, another city in Inner Mongolia. That also lead to the issuing of a level three alert and the closure of several tourist spots.

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe during the Black Death pandemic in the Middle Ages.

According to the World Health Organisation somewhere between 1,000 to 2,000 people still catch the disease every year.


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Just two more weeks, guys!

Why is this chit always, ALWAYS, coming from China?

Bubonic plague outbreaks still occur occasionally all over the world.

Massive Population of dirty, poor people

yet China (1.4b people) has the same life expectancy as US (300 million) of 78 years...

We are a fat, unhealthy population. What’s your point?

Life expectancy has a lot to do with nutrition, availability of food, modern medicine (at least modern enough that you don't die of diahrea or an easilytreated infection), and a work environment safe enough that you don't get crushed by machinery at 23.

If you stay in ok shape, have food, basic antibiotics and don't work in a coal mine you'll probably live to be pretty old anywhere in the modern world. China is still full of poor people living in legitimate 3rd world conditions.

Also, how does China report it's numbers?

Don't be calling my people dirty and poor, that is unless you want to be round housed to the head.

And who was India?

China went from an average age of 49 years in the 1950's to 78+ years in 2020...That's a big change
US went from 69 to 78....

What if we just sealed off China until they stopped sending us pandemics

cow poop festival

Tell me that’s dirt brah.

i know eh

And what were the changes in nutrition, jobs, available medicine, etc... in that time frame for the China? I would think 1950s China would be comparable to 1900s US so this isn't really a apples to apples comparison. The lufe expectancy during the industrial revolution in the west was quite low and picked up quickly afterwards, which is more comparable.

We should seal off Los Angeles as well, they have infestations of the plague.

real poop

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Nowadays, the poor people have enough food/clothes
Lots of people exercise regularly....They ride a bike to commute instead of taking the car..
They rarely stay at home.

Cows are herbivores, so it's just pre-fertalizer. I'd take some people playing in cow poop over fuking eating anything that lives or breaths, and mixing it in all sorts of fuking dirty ass conditions.

Because they ain't thief's that steal land and resources from other countries.

Also you look like a **** in your avi, **** boi.

99% of china is 3rd world chithole, on top of the fact that china gives no fuks about safety

They don’t circumcise their men.

that doesnt even make sense lol. the answer is communism.

also, they are LITERALLY doing that exact thing to hong kong right now lol

CHY-NA , thats' where it comes from: CHY-NA

LOL they just steal the INFORMATION from developed countries

It's their way of saying they disapprove with Drumpfs foreign policies (like releasing covid). They're too p_ssy to counter with any direct force.

China says 1 case of plague.

Keep in mind China was leading the world in COVID cases until it magically just stopped around 84,000 cases.

tours over boys