This is the second patient with this form of the plague diagnosed in November, after two others were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague
A fourth person in northern China has been diagnosed with the bubonic plague this month, officials confirmed, as a flea and rat eradication campaign was carried out by local government.
Another person was diagnosed with bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia’s Xilin Gol league on November 16, more than 400km away. Also in mid-November, two patients from Inner Mongolia were moved to Beijing for treatment of the highly contagious pneumonic strain of the plague. The Ulanqab government said earlier that it had sprayed almost 80ha of land last week as part of “rat- and flea-extermination work”.
The plague germ Yersinia pestis can be transmitted to humans from infected rats via fleas. Though it is rare in China, several cases have proven deadly in the past few years.
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