A Chinese city has locked down a neighbourhood and issued level-three epidemic warnings for plague after one of its residents died of the disease, according to a government notice. The city of Baotou in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said the person had contracted the enteric plague, one of the four forms of plague which attacks a person's digestive system. The government admitted that the city was facing a potential epidemic of plague among humans. It is less common than the bubonic plague, one of the most devastating diseases in history, or the pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The other type of plague, the septicemic plague, affects a person's blood systems.

Source: Daily Mail August 06, 2020 15:53 UTC