Two Cases of Pneumonic Plague Set China on Alert

Chinese health authorities urged calm after two people were diagnosed with pneumonic plague, an infection related to the bubonic plague that is believed to have ravaged 14th-century Europe

Late on Tuesday, health officials in Beijing and the remote northern province of Inner Mongolia, famous for its vast grasslands, said in a brief joint statement that two

people from Inner Mongolia had been diagnosed with pneumonic plague, a severe form of lung infection related to the bubonic plague that is believed to have ravaged Europe in the...

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