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Pneumonic plague outbreak

Outbreak seals town of 10,000

A town of 10,000 people in the northwestern province of Qinghai has been sealed off after three men died of pneumonic plague and nine others were affected, health authorities said. Full story

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2009-08-04 09:10:45 GMT China Daily HONG KONG: China has quarantined a town of 10,000 people in the northwest Qinghai Province after two people there died of pneumonic plague, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

A closer look at plague and how it is spread

2009-08-04 09:09:52 GMT SINA.com A look at the pneumonic plague that has killed three people in China: