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The bubonic plague is back again in China's Inner Mongolia...


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

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.

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.


Here we go AGAIN! First the G4 Swine Flu pandemic potential and now this... talk about shithole.

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And behold I saw on a green horse a King, and he had a blue bucket given to him, full of the bubonic plague. And he went fourth conquering, that he might conquer.

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?Don't get that one, Quasi?

King with a green horse and a blue bucket?

Are you just being facetious? :)

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One of the four horses of the apocalypse was actually green but that sounded too dumb so they changed the translation to "pale". And I just like the sound of "blue bucket".

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I also heard that aliens are taking over China too smh👽👽👽

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Not aliens, the home grown Borg. Resistance was futile.

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:) So, facetious it is. :)

If the bible's authors had only admitted that they were writing pure fiction for entertainment purposes, they'd be acclaimed today as the most brilliant writers in history. Because some of the "Revelations" prose is just magnificent, imo.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

"Globally between 2010 and 2015 there were 3248 documented cases, which resulted in 584 deaths. The countries with the greatest number of cases are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru."

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