China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case

 While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, or infectious threats remain, with local health authorities anuncing a suspected bubonic plague case in Inner Mongolia Automous Region.

Authorities in Bayannur district raised plague warning on Sunday, ordered residents t to hunt wild animals such as marmots and to send for treatment anyone with fever or showing or possible signs of infection.

Plague can be fatal in up to 90% of people infected if t treated, primarily with several s of antibiotics.

Pneumonic plague can develop from bubonic plague and results in a severe lung infection causing shortness of breath, heache and coughing.

China has largely ericated plague, but occasional cases are still reported, especially among hunters coming into contact with fleas carrying bacterium. last major kwn outbreak was in 2009, when several people died in town of Ziketan in Qinghai province on Tibetan Plateau.

Along with coronavirus, first detected in central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, China has dealt with African swine fever, which has devastated pig herds.

China has gone weeks without reporting a new death from coronavirus, and on Monday reported just one new case of local infection in capital, Beijing.