Many Chinese people are now on high alert after a few locals in Inner Mongolia have reportedly contracted the plague and as the rat population in the region is said to be out of control.
According to official Chinese state media reports, at least four people have been diagnosed with the plague. The first patient, from northwest China’s Gansu Province, died in September from bubonic plague. A husband and wife from Inner Mongolia were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague and both are receiving treatment at a hospital in Beijing. The fourth patient, also from Inner Mongolia, contracted the bubonic plague after he consumed a wild hare on Nov. 5—he is also being treated in Beijing.
