Apparently Bubonic Plague Is Back

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Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday.

The case was discovered in the city of Bayannur, located northwest of Beijing, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. A hospital alerted municipal authorities of the patient's case on Saturday. By Sunday, local authorities had issued a citywide Level 3 warning for plague prevention, the second lowest in a four-level system. The warning will stay in place until the end of the year, according to Xinhua.

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, is one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, it killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe. Modern antibiotics can prevent complications and death if administered quickly enough.

Bubonic plague, which is one of plague's three forms, causes painful, swollen lymph nodes, as well as fever, chills, and coughing.

Bayannur health authorities are now urging people to take extra precautions to minimize the risk of human-to-human transmission, and to avoid hunting or eating animals that could cause infection.

 

 

Source:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/asia/china-mongolia-bubonic-plague-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

 

2020 still can't be chill just yet.

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

 

[Werk 13,166]

But it's curable and most likely won't hit anywhere outside of China for now right? 

[alsemanche 97,820]

Can a huge asteroid just end us already? 

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1 minute ago, Werk said:

But it's curable and most likely won't hit anywhere outside of China for now right? 

Correct. Unless one of those infected marmot fur are imported abroad too. But yes, it is curable.

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The collapse of this planet 

[BillieGOAT 5,272]

China, y’all better pipe down over there 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

2020 the year of earth being DRAGGED through the cosmic dust...

[ShayCristoforo 10,607]

Hopefully it was just something with similar symptoms, mistaken for bubonic plague.

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The thing is that it never truly left.

There were cases even in the US recently.

[buzzkill 5,183]

why cant the world just end?  

[Chic 20,830]

You got the overdramatic doomers going batshit again, good job

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9 minutes ago, Werk said:

But it's curable and most likely won't hit anywhere outside of China for now right? 

It is curable and not that deadly nowadays

But there are already potential reservoirs of the plague all around the world.

Overall is not something to panic since sporadic cases happened in recent times... it's just that people are more scared now because of COVID. 

[audrey horne 1,180]

so Mother Nature really decided to get rid of us, can't blame her tbh

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covid ft bubonic plague remix dropping in your region soon