China disinfects town where plague killed 3rd man

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 08:14 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- Authorities killed rats and fleas on Tuesday as they disinfected a town sealed off after three people died of pneumonic plague in a remote farming town in northwestern China, according to the provincial health department.

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