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No quarantine plan

The Epidemiology Bureau has no plans to quarantine anyone travelling from Ziketan in China's northereast, where a deadly pneumonic plague has been detected, because the risk of humantohuman transmission is minimal. ...full story at The Nation

from The Nation on Tue, Aug 04 2009

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03 Aug 09 visit Qinghai hit with pneumonic plague, two dead  »  Shanghaiist Thousands of people in Qinghai province have been placed under quarantine after two men died and 11 others were confirmed infected with pneumonic plague. The first victim, a 32-year-old herdsman in Ziketan, died over the weekend. His 37-year-old neighbor...
02 Aug 09 visit Vermin hunt as killer plague outbreak hits  »  Shanghai Daily THOUSANDS have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China's Qinghai Province after two people died of pneumonic plague and 10 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung disease, provincial...
04 Aug 09 visit Third pneumonic plague death reported in Qinghai  »  Shanghaiist A third person in Ziketan, Qinghai has died of pneumonic plague, according to the AP. The latest victim, a 64-year-old man was a neighbor of the two herdsmen who passed away earlier this week. Authorities have been scrambling to make sure this outbreak...

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