FREE newsletter is packed with the best (and weirdest) stories from around the worldChina has detected a case of deadly dengue fever – and it was recorded on the same day one of its citizens contracted a bubonic plague infection.
A person in the city of Guangde, in eastern China, was taken ill on Sunday, officials said. It comes following the news two brothers in China's northern Inner Mongolia region were detected to have bubonic plague, known as the "Black Death" in the Middle Ages.
China's state-run People's Daily Online reported the city of Bayannur has a "level 3 warning of plague prevention and control".
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