If you look at other numbers of deaths from a global pandemic such as bubonic plague, you may feel a little larger in the current situation.
A smear of bubonic plague, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubbly, from a patient with plague, demonstrates the presence of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague. Image: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Getty Images) Source: Supplied
A village in northern China was reportedly quarantined after a local resident suffered the plague.
According to Reuters, the government of the city of Baotou isolated the village in the Inner Mongolia region after the death of a resident.
The city’s fitness commission reported the death on Thursday, the patient had died from circulatory formula failure and had been shown to have an “intestinal-type plague.”
Authorities warned of “an epidemic of human plague spreading across the city” at the time of the announcement.
The plague has not been reported.
Nine close contacts and 26 secondary patient contacts have also been quarantined, but have been negative and have taken preventive medications.
The Damao Banner district has been placed at the lowest alert point of the moment for the rest of the year (there are 4 degrees for the alert system).
China recorded 26 cases of plague between 2009 and 2018, with deaths.
It plagues the deadliest pandemic in human history, however, it can now be treated seamlessly with antibiotics if detected early enough.
In July, a user caught but survived the plague in Bayannur, a city in Inner Mongolia, prompting a point 3 alert and the closure of several tourist sites, according to CNN.