Health officials in Inner Mongolia said Monday they suspect a case of bubonic plague in a man who’s been hospitalized.
July 6 (UPI) — Health officials in Inner Mongolia said Monday they suspect a case of bubonic plague in a man who’s been hospitalized.
The new case was reported over the weekend in Bayannur in Inner Mongolia, health officials said. It wasn’t immediately known how the herdsman became infected, but his condition was reported as stable.
“There is a risk of a human plague epidemic spreading in this city,” local health officials said.
