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BEIJING (AP) — China says a 55-year-old man has been diagnosed with bubonic plague after killing and eating a wild rabbit, adding to two plague cases already discovered in the capital Beijing.
A statement from the health authority in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region north of Beijing said as of Saturday the man was being treated at a hospital in the city of Huade.
It said investigators found the patient from rural Xilingol League consumed the rabbit on Nov. 5.
The statement said 28 people who had close contact with the man were quarantined but none has run a fever or shown other plague symptoms.
On Nov. 12, two patients also from Xilingol League were diagnosed with pneumonic plague in Beijing. No epidemiological association has been found between the two cases.
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