China a three-year-old boy in the southwest Yunnan province is feared to have contracted plague, also known as the Black Death.
The Chinese incident emerged after three dead rats were found in a village in Menghai county.The county has started a level IV emergency response to prevent the spread of the disease, reported Global Times.Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease spread by fleas living on wild rodents and can kill an adult in less than 24 hours if not treated in time.The woman's infection in the Altai soum or district of Khovd province in Mongolia was confirmed by lab test results, the country's National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases (NCZD) reported.She was found to have eaten marmot meat last week, said the centre.Tests are also.
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