China and Mongolia, have been linked to past plague outbreaks in the area. The animal is believed to have caused a 1911 plague epidemic which killed about 63,000 people in northeast China.In July, two brothers who had eaten marmot meat tested positive for the plague, leading to a Level 3 alert for Bayunnur, a city in western Inner Mongolia.The Suji Xincun death is the first death confirmed to have been linked to the plague in China this year.Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria transmitted to humans via infected animals and flea bites.
The disease causes painful, swollen lymph nodes, fever and coughing. The Black Death pandemic wiped out almost two-thirds of Europe's entire population in the mid-14th-century, but the discovery of.
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