An outbreak of the deadly and highly transmissible bubonic plague in China is being “well managed” by Beijing and is really no cause for alarm, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Tuesday.
Health authorities in Inner Mongolia, China, diagnosed two cases of the bubonic plague, the medieval disease sometimes known as “the black death,” state media confirmed on Sunday.
Nine tourists were left stranded in a remote region of Mongolia after an unidentified local couple died from the bubonic plague.
A UK Independence Party (UKIP) spokesman has been much mocked on social media for comparing the party’s disastrous performance in the English local elections to the Black Death.
