Sunday, a day after a hospital reported a suspected case of bubonic plague at a cattle herd, authorities issued a warning in Bayan Nur, China's Inner Mongolia region, on Sunday.

Bubonic plague is historically called the "black death", and caused a global epidemic that struck Europe and Asia in the 14th century, killing its time between 75 and 200 million.

The health committee in Bayan Nur said - in Bayan - that the injured man is in a stable condition, while he is in a hospital in the city.

The commission prohibited hunting and eating animals that might be carriers of the plague - especially the marmot - until the end of the year, and urged the population to report the presence of any sick or dead rodents.

A suspected plague of a 15-year-old boy was reported Monday in neighboring Mongolia, according to the official China News Agency, and stated that the boy suffered from a fever after eating a parasite after he caught a dog.

Plague is an infectious disease affecting rodents, some other animals and humans (Getty Images)

Stone

The agency said that two confirmed cases were recorded last week in Khufd Province, Mongolia, by two brothers who had eaten marmot meat. The stone was imposed on 146 people who had mixed with the two brothers.

The Bayan Nur Health Committee issued this third-level warning, which is the second lowest warning in a system that includes 4 levels.

This warning prohibits the hunting or eating of animals that may carry the plague, and requires people to report any cases of suspected plague or a rise in temperature without apparent reasons.

Bubonic plague, known in the Middle Ages as "black death", is a highly contagious disease, often fatal, and is spread by rodents most of the time.

Plague cases are common in China, but outbreaks of this disease are becoming increasingly rare, and China recorded 26 cases and 11 deaths between 2009 and 2018.

Bubonic plague that appeared in China is a type of plague (Picture Alliance-Deutsche Welle)

What is the?

Plague is an infectious disease that affects rodents and some other animals and people, and it is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which is found in many regions of the world, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The centers say that people usually get plague when they are bitten by a flea infected with plague bacteria, people can also be infected from direct contact with infected tissues or fluids while dealing with a sick animal or animal that died from the plague.

People can also develop respiratory drops inhalation after close contact with cats and people with pneumonic plague.

As for bubonic plague that appeared in China, it is one of the types of plague, in which the patient suddenly develops a fever, headache, chills, weakness, enlarged lymph nodes and pain.

Types of plague:
Bubonic plague

It causes inflammation of the tonsils, spleen and thymus, and symptoms include fever, chills, and allergic reactions in the lymph nodes.

Historically, bubonic plague was called "black death", referring to blackness in tissues caused by gangrene (tissue death) in parts of the body, such as the fingers, that can occur with disease.

The cause of black death is a global epidemic that struck Europe and Asia in the 13th century. There are several estimates of the people killed by the black death, and it is believed that it killed about 50 million people in Europe, or nearly 60% of the continent's population. As for the world, it is estimated that his death ranged between 75 and 200 million.

Septicemic plague

In it, bacteria reproduce in the blood. Symptoms include fever, chills, and shock, which are caused by bleeding, bleeding under the skin, or parts of the body.

Pneumonic plague

It is the most dangerous type of plague, and it causes pneumonia, and those infected transmit infection to others.

Flea bite

Bubonic plague usually occurs as a result of an infected flea bite, and bacteria multiply in the lymph node closest to where the bacteria enter the human body. And if the patient is not treated with the appropriate antibiotics, the bacteria can spread to other parts of the body.

Fleas become infected with plague when they suck blood from rodents, such as squirrels, mice, and other mammals infected with Yersinia pestis. The fleas then transfer the plague bacteria to humans and other mammals later.

Plague bacteria live for a short period (a few days) in rodent blood and for a longer period in fleas.

A person usually develops bubonic plague two to six days after infection, and when a person is exposed to Yersinia pestis bacteria in the air, he will get sick within 1 to 3 days.

And if bubonic plague is left untreated, plague bacteria can invade the bloodstream, and when plague bacteria multiply in the bloodstream they spread quickly throughout the body, causing a severe and often fatal condition called septic plague.

Untreated bubonic plague can also develop into infection in the lungs, causing pneumonic plague. If plague patients are not given treatment, which is antibiotics, all forms of plague can quickly progress to death.

Globally, between a thousand and two thousand cases are reported each year from the plague, but the true figure is likely to be much higher.

Treatment of the plague with antibiotics is successful, and once the patient is diagnosed with the suspected plague, he must be hospitalized and medically isolated.

Multiple epidemics

According to Dr. Abdel-Raoof Ali al-Munaymeh, a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza. Scientific history recorded a widespread spread of plague, known as the Justinian plague (in the name of the Byzantine Emperor Justin) in 451 AD, and intermittent epidemics continued for 200 years, killing about 25 million people, and the epidemic spread to most of the countries of the Mediterranean basin.

In the year 1334, the spread of what became known as the Black Death or the Great Plague in China, and from there to Constantinople and the rest of Europe, where it claimed about 60% of the total population of Europe, and some historians considered the occurrence of this epidemic a cause of the Renaissance in the 14th century, where it caused The plague greatly reduced manpower, which forced the survivors to modernity and renaissance.

In our modern era, the plague was the starting point of China in the 1960s, and then to Hong Kong at the end of the century, until the beginning of the twentieth century, and spread through rats in steam ships, and this time the pandemic claimed about 10 million people.

The doctor adds that the famous plague of Emmaus in Islamic history was called the plague of Emmaus, attributed to a small town in Palestine between Ramla and Jerusalem, because the plague started from it before it spread to the Levant.

Among the most prominent among them were the companions, Abu Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah, Moaz bin Jabal, Yazid bin Abi Sufyan and Suhail bin Amr, and other companions of the Companions, and some historians estimated that this plague claimed the lives of about 25 thousand people.