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The World Health Organization is monitoring a case of bubonic plague in China but said it’s not “high risk†for now, according to news reports. The alert comes after a hospital in Bayannur, a city northwest of Beijing, notified local government officials Saturday that there was a suspected case of the plague, prompting authorities to issue a citywide Level 3 warning on Sunday, the Xinhua news agency reported. On Tuesday, doctors confirmed the diagnosis. “The commission urged the public to beef up self-protection as the city has the risk of people-to-people infections and not to hang and eat animals that...
