Two patients in China were diagnosed with plague, the deadly and infectious disease tied to historic pandemics, local media reported.
The news outlets reported the patients received "proper treatment," and disease control measures and prevention methods have been taken. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said the patients were quickly isolated and health officials investigated everyone who could have been exposed to them,reported. Chinese health officials also called the risk for further infections "extremely low.
Earlier this year, a Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat. The case sparked a quarantine in the area for days, but no additional cases appeared to have been reported.
Maybe the Communist party should worry more about its populations health than trying to control their freedom.
China had an outbreak last century. That’s when they worked out it was yersinia pestis during the Black Death. It’s no biggie. Easily treated with antibiotics. The real news is the Ebola outbreak in the Congo. The 2nd biggest ever....