WHO Monitoring Bubonic Plague Case in China’s Inner Mongolia

The World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters building in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 11, 2015. Raphael Satter/The Canadian Press

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it is monitoring a bubonic plague outbreak that was reported in China’s Inner Mongolia.

The U.N. organization said Tuesday it is monitoring the situation but doesn’t consider it to be high-risk.