{"id":109574,"date":"2020-07-06T00:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/city-in-chinas-inner-mongolia-warns-after-suspected-bubonic-plague-case"},"modified":"2020-07-06T00:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:04:07","slug":"city-in-chinas-inner-mongolia-warns-after-suspected-bubonic-plague-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/city-in-chinas-inner-mongolia-warns-after-suspected-bubonic-plague-case","title":{"rendered":"City in China\u2019s Inner Mongolia warns after suspected bubonic plague case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/city-in-chinas-inner-mongolia-warns-after-suspected-bubonic-plague-case.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s warning follows four reported cases of plague in people from Inner Mongolia last November, including two of pneumonic plague, a deadlier variant of plague.<\/p>\n<p>The bubonic plague, known as the \u201cBlack Death\u201d in the Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that is spread mostly by rodents.<\/p>\n<p>Plague cases are not uncommon in China, but outbreaks have become increasingly rare. From 2009 to 2018, China reported 26 cases and 11 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday\u2019s warning follows four reported cases of plague in people from Inner Mongolia last November, including two of pneumonic plague, a deadlier variant of plague. The bubonic plague, known as the \u201cBlack Death\u201d in the Middle Ages, is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that is spread mostly by rodents. Plague cases are not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}