Plague appears in China and a warning of the outbreak of the Black Death

The Plague, or the Black Death, and the horror that haunts us all that mentioned that disease, which leaves nothing but painful images and memories for millions, and days after China announced the emergence of a new type of swine flu, the name of a disease that had forgotten since the middle ages to the fore again.

The Chinese authorities in the Ainer Mongolia region issued a warning, Sunday, one day after a hospital reported a suspected case of the plague, the disease that is considered the most deadly pandemic in human history, and is caused by a bacterium called "Yersinia pestis".

The Health Committee of the Chinese city of Bian Noor also issued a third-level alert, which is the second lowest level in a four-level system.

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The alert prohibits hunting and eating animals that can transmit plague, and people are also required to report any suspected cases of plague or fever without apparent causes, with any sick or dead squirrel being reported, as it is known to be a carrier of the disease.

The Plague or the “Black Death”, was the second largest disaster affecting Europe during the late Middle Ages after the Great Famine, and it is estimated that it killed millions of people, estimated at between 30% and 60% of Europeans at that time.

The Black Plague” is a very old disease that killed millions of people in Asia, Africa and Europe, and it was called the “Black Death” because of spots of blood that became black that appeared under the skin of the infected person.

The disease is transmitted to humans through fleas, and animals can also be infected.

There are types of plague, bubonic plague, a disease that causes inflammation of the tonsils, lymph nodes and spleen, and its symptoms appear in the form of fever, headache, tremors and pain in the lymph nodes. And blood plague, where germs multiply in the blood and cause fever, chills, and bleeding under the skin or in other places of the infected body.

As for pneumonic plague, in this type the germs enter the lungs and cause severe pneumonia.

It is noteworthy that the warning of the Chinese authorities came a week after the discovery of a new strain of swine flu in the country, amid the possibility of it also turning into a new global pandemic.