- A resident of Baotou died of the enteric plague in Inner Mongolia on Sunday.
- Officials have sealed off the area the person lived in and started deep cleaning.
- They said the city was facing a potential epidemic of plague among humans.
- Comes after the province detected an infection of the bubonic plague in July.
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| Chinese city locks down a neighbourhood and issues epidemic warnings for PLAGUE after reporting a case of death from the disease |
A Chinese city has locked down a village and issued level-three epidemic warnings for plague after one of its residents died of the disease, according to a government notice.
The city of Baotou in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said the person had contracted the enteric plague, one of the four forms of plague which attacks a person's digestive system.
The unidentified individual died on Sunday after suffering circulatory system failure, the Baotou Health Committee said in a statement on Thursday.