Posted by: Arctic Chicken | August 6, 2009

Dog suspected source of China plague

Dog suspected source of China plague
Breitbart
Aug 6 07:07 AM US/Eastern

A dog is suspected to be the origin of an outbreak of pneumonic plague in northwest China that has killed three people and left 10,000 under strict quarantine, state media reported.

Ziketan, a remote town in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province, has been locked down since Saturday in an effort to contain the spread of the highly virulent disease.

One patient was in critical condition and eight others were infected, most of them relatives of the first fatality, a 32-year-old herdsman, or local doctors, Xinhua news agency said.

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Odie is not going to like this. This will Garfield more reasons to hate dogs.


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