Chinese hunter catches bubonic plague after eating wild rabbit - The Hilltop Monitor

Rats are known carriers of the plague spreading them via infected fleas. — Reuters pic

The 55-year-old is now being isolated and treated at a hospital in Ulanqab.

Three countries where the plague still circulates are the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar, and Peru. Pneumonic plague can purchase from bubonic plague and ends in a intense lung an infection producing shortness of breath, headache and coughing. It's considered the most risky because it's highly contagious, easily spread from person to person through cough droplets. The disease can be fatal if not promptly treated. "Recuperation rates are high whenever identified and treated in time (inside 24 hours of beginning of side effects)", World Health Organization noted. Taiwan's health ministry said fleas could transmit the plague to rodents before infecting other animals and humans. The experts also hope that the risk of an outbreak is minima in Inner Mongolia. The individual is from Xilingol in Inner Mongolia.

The statement said 28 people who had close contact with the man were quarantined but none has run a fever or shown other plague symptoms.

Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of northern China, confirmed a case of bubonic plague on Sunday, according to Reuters.

In the 14th century the Black Death spread across the Mediterranean and Europe, killing up to 60 percent of Europe's total population. Yersinia pestis is believed to have originated in China, spreading to the West via ships.

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Pneumonic plague is the most virulent and deadly strain of the disease. Between 2010 and 2015 584 patients died from the disease. The person was not identified by Chinese officials.

The first two illnesses were confirmed on November 12.

After the couple was analyzed, laborers at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital supplanted the entirety of the seats in the crisis room while police stood monitor, as per reports from Chinese outlet Caixin Global.

Current fears about a potential plague outbreak are perhaps being fuelled by China's handling of past health crises.

China has vastly improved its detection and administration of infectious health conditions considering that the 2003 outbreak of the intense acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that led to 774 deaths, primarily in China and Hong Kong.

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