They sought treatment Tuesday in a hospital in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, where they were diagnosed with pneumonic plague, according to the government office of the district. Pneumonic plague is one of three types of infectious disease known as plague caused by the same bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Patients diagnosed with pneumonic plague, which causes high fevers and shortness of breath, sometimes first contract the closely related and more well-known disease, bubonic plague. Li Jifeng, a doctor at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital where the two people sought treatment, wrote on WeChat, a social media platform, that the patients sought treatment Nov 3. Li could not be reached for comment and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital declined to comment.

Source: bd News24 November 13, 2019 17:24 UTC