중국 네이멍구서 흑사병 사망자 발생…올해 첫 사례<br /><br />Good morning to our viewers across the globe, you're watching Arirang's 'The World Now'. I'm Kim Jae-hee.<br />The city of Baotou, in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, is on alert,... as it has reported the death of a patient from the plague.<br />The city's Health Commission said in a statement on Thursday,... a local resident who died of circulatory system failure on Sunday, was confirmed to have had an intestinal type of plague.<br />This type of plague shows symptoms like diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, and high fever.<br />This is the first plague death that China has reported this year.<br />The city has sealed off the village where the dead patient lived, and a total of 35 people have been put into quarantine.<br />They have all tested negative for the disease, and none of them have shown symptoms.<br />The city also issued a level three warning,... the second-lowest alert level on its four-level system for plague control and prevention,... on the district where the village sits, until the end of this year.<br />From 2009 to 2018, China had reported 26 cases and 11 deaths from the plague.<br />
