By Xinhua
Beijing : China’s northwest Gansu province reported its second plague case this year in November, China’s ministry of health said here Monday.
The patient died, the ministry said in its monthly report on infectious diseases. No further details were provided.
Gansu also reported China’s first plague case this year in September.
Plague, also called the Black Death, is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium. People usually get infected through contact with infected insects or animals.
Infectious diseases claimed 697 lives in China in November with nearly 430,000 cases recorded, according to the ministry.
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