Chinese town sealed off after plague death

A town in China has been sealed after a 38-year-old man died from a case of bubonic plague. Other 151 people who came in contact with the man had also been put in quarantine although none of them showed signs of the disease.

The man apparently caught the plague from a wild rodent. Every year there are thousands of cases of the plague but they are easily treatable with antibiotics.

Because the plague is not air transmitted and can be treated rather quickly Western health representatives fear that the Chinese government is hiding some information as the measures taken are too radical for just one case of plague.

‘I feel there's something here that we don't know, because this seems a very expansive response to just one case. I'm very puzzled at the circumstances here, and what the actual hazard is,’ tells a professor of infectious diseases.