{"article":{"id":211805,"heading":"Bubonic plague a major public health emergency in China, authorities warn","author":"Infection Protection","created":"2007-12-20 04:16:48","modified":"2013-11-11 00:50:35","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:50:35","article":"

A patient presents at a clinic in rural China — along the Qinghai-Tibet railway — with serious symptoms, including a high fever, swollen lymph nodes and delirium. The consensus, according to doctors, is that it is bubonic plague. The plague is a fatal bacterial disease transmitted by fleas from infected rats and by contact with infected blood or tissue. Though the affliction is historically associated with the “Black Death” pandemic of the Middle Ages in Europe, over the past five years, Qinghai, China, a province all the way around the world, and centuries removed from medieval Europe, has experienced a number of deaths from plague. By Gene Koprowski, Editor-in-Chief

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