30,000 residents of Yumen is not allowed to leave, and 28 people have been placed in quarantine after the death of a manChinese city closed and 28 people have been placed in quarantine last week a man died of bubonic plague, State media said.
Gansu Yumen in Harju County, 30,000 residents are not allowed to leave, and police roadblocks on the ring to tell motorists to find alternative routes, the China Central television (CCTV) said.
the 38-year-old man died last Wednesday, the report said, after he had been in contact with a dead marmot, a small furry animal related to the squirrel. Continue to plague cases have been reported.
CCTV said officials did not allow anyone to leave. The China Daily newspaper said four of the quarantine area should be established in the city.
"The city is enough rice, flour and oil to supply its residents up to a month to" CCTV added. "Local residents and those in quarantine are all in stable condition." More have been reported.
Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection best known as the black death, a dangerous epidemic that killed tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century. Primarily a disease of animals, is extremely rare in humans.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says, modern antibiotics are effective in treating a plague but without prompt treatment the disease can cause serious illness or death.
Source: AFP
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