This picture taken on April 24, 2020 shows a sign of the World Health Organization in Geneva next to their headquarters, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus.The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was monitoring a case of bubonic plague in China after being notified by the authorities in Beijing.
Two other cases were confirmed in Khovd province in neighbouring Mongolia last week involving brothers who had eaten marmot meat, China’s state news agency Xinhua said. “Plague is rare, typically found in selected geographical areas across the globe where it is still endemic,” the agency said, adding that sporadic cases of plague have been reported in China over the last decade.
Though the highly-contagious plague is rare in China and can be treated, at least five people have died from it since 2014, according to China’s National Health Commission.
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