A city in the north of China has sounded an alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague was registered by officials. The case was reported on Saturday by a hospital in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of Bayannur.
The northern city announced a 'level III warning of plague prevention and control'. State-run People's Daily Online reported the alert, the second lowest in a four-level system in operation in the country.
According to the World Health Organization, the Bubonic plague - a bacterial disease that is spread by fleas living on wild rodents - can kill an adult in under 24 hours.
The local health authority announced that the warning period will continue until the end of 2020. "At present, there is a risk of a human plague
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