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China Isolates Town After 2 Die of Plague

10,000 quarantined in Tibetan region after outbreak at funeral

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2009 7:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – China has quarantined a remote town of 10,000 after two people died of pneumonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. The Times of London reports that the first victim died after burying his dog, and 11 people at the funeral then fell ill,...   Read full story »

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