⁍ Baotou city has sealed off the village where the dead patient lived and quarantined the patient’s close contacts.
⁍ From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths.
– A village in China’s Inner Mongolia has been quarantined after a resident died of an intestinal type of plague, the AP reports. According to Reuters, China reported 11 deaths from plague from 2009 to 2018 and 26 cases from 2009 to 2018. Cases of plague are becoming more common in China, but outbreaks are rare. From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths. Baotou city has sealed off the village where the dead patient lived and quarantined the patient’s close contacts, who have tested negative for the disease so far and taken preventive medicines. The city has also put the district where the village is located on the second-lowest alert level on its four-level system for plague response until the end of the year. The Baotou city health commission said the patient, who died of circulatory system failure, was confirmed to have ‘intestinal-type plague.’ Baotou city has sealed off the village where the dead patient lived and quarantined the patient’s close contacts, who have tested negative for the disease so far and taken preventive medicines.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-plague/inner-mongolia-village-quarantined-after-plague-patient-dies-idUSKCN2522AI