After cases recorded in July, the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia now confirms the death of a person with bubonic plague. The village was quarantined.
Officials in the Chinese Inner Mongolia region determined the isolation of a village after a resident died of bubonic plague, a centuries-old disease, also known as the black plague, which was responsible for the deadliest pandemic in human history.
The death was reported to health authorities in the city of Baotou on Sunday and the victim was confirmed as a patient with black plague this Thursday, the Baotou Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its website. The patient died of circulatory system failure, according to the statement. It is not mentioned how he got the plague.
To contain the spread of the disease, the authorities isolated the village of Suji Xincun, where the dead patient lived, and ordered the daily disinfection of the houses. All the inhabitants so far have given the disease negative results, the statement said. Nine close and 26 secondary contacts of the patient were quarantined and tested negative, the Baotou commission said. Banner Damao, the district where the village is located, was placed on a level 3 alert for pest prevention, the second lowest in a four-level system, by the end of the year.
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