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 Local authorities in the city of Bayan Nur in the Chinese region of
Inner Mongolia issued a warning on Sunday, one day after a hospital
reported a case of suspected bubonic plague. It followed four
reported cases of plague in people there last November, including
two of pneumonic plague, a deadlier variant.
"We are monitoring the outbreaks in China, we are watching that
closely and in partnership with the Chinese authorities and
Mongolian authorities," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N.
press briefing in Geneva.
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"At the moment we are not...considering it high-risk but we are
watching it, monitoring it carefully," she added.
The bubonic plague, known as the “Black Death” in the Middle Ages,
is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that is spread mostly
by rodents. Cases are not uncommon in China although they are
becoming increasingly rare.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Stephanie Nebehay, Editing by Michael
Shields)
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