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Chinese city sealed off after bubonic plague death
2014-07-24
[THEGUARDIAN] 30,000 residents of Yumen are not being allowed to leave and 151 people have been placed in quarantine after man's death
Posted by:Fred

#1  I've seen suggestions that shutting down a city for a single case of bubonic plague is a bit of overkill. Something else going on - like the start of the Zombie Apocalypse?

Then again, we are talking about the ChiComs, a group not known for restraint or caution.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-07-24 16:47