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China plague death prompts alert.... (Pneumonic plague)
BBC ^ | August 2nd , 2009
Posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 12:36:24 PM by TaraP
Thousands of people have been placed in quarantine in north-western China after a man died of pneumonic plague.
Chinese authorities say the man who died was a 32-year-old herdsman from a sparsely populated area mostly inhabited by Tibetans.
Most of the other 11 people infected with the disease are relatives of the dead man.
The local government has not yet said when the man died but it has sealed off the town where the outbreak occurred.
It says there are enough supplies to feed the 10,000 or so people who live in the town of Ziketan, near Xinghai in Qinghai province, during the quarantine period.
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