China are under lockdown after a 3-year-old boy has infected with the bubonic plague. Doctors confirmed the infection of the child from Menghai county, Yunnan, on Sunday (September 27).The boy had been tested on Thursday but confirmation was delayed because he had already been given antibiotics, which made diagnosis difficult in initial samples.
The case was spotted as part of a national screening programme against the plague, also know as the " Black Death " infection, prompted by the discovery of three rats that had died of an unknown disease in Xiding, Menghai.
Local disease control authorities confirmed that a severe rat infestation has broken out in the region earlier this month.The regional government launched a level-IV emergency.
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