China Failed for 10 Days to Confirm ‘Black Death' Outbreak

China Failed for 10 Days to Confirm ‘Black Death' Outbreak
A man carrying a child in the center of Bayan-Ulgii, in Ulgii soum, Mongolia on March 4, 2014. - A Mongolian man was diagnosed with the bubonic plague on Nov. 16, 2019 after consuming a wild hare. Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/AFP via Getty Images
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China violated World Health Organization guidelines when it failed this month to disclose in a timely manner that it had two cases of plague that caused the “Black Death.”