This time, scientists are sure it originated in China in the 19th century, in what is now the southwestern province of Yunnan. That bubonic plague outbreak made its way to Hong Kong — then a ...

China’s Secret Plague. 18 minute read. Alice Park Kunming. December 15, 2003 12:00 AM EST. ... Yunnan is China’s fourth largest province and historically one of its most mysterious and remote.

Today, many of us think of the plague as something confined to the history books. But this month, three people in China were diagnosed with two different forms of plague, highlighting that the ...

A third, lesser-known global plague pandemic began in 1855 in China's Yunnan province and killed more than 12 million people in India and China alone.

First, they felt pain all over their body. Next, a lump — sometimes as small as pea, other times as big as an apple — protruded from their skin. Then, as the disease spread throughout their ...

Yunnan has the highest IV-drug-use rates in China, and a recent U.N. AIDS report estimates that anywhere from 50% to 80% of the users are carrying the AIDS virus.

Yunnan was hit by another breakout between 1986 and 2005, and another case was diagnosed in Yunnan in 2016. ... After the plague diagnosis in China, ...

This time, scientists are sure it originated in China in the 19th century, in what is now the southwestern province of Yunnan. That bubonic plague outbreak made its way to Hong Kong — then a ...

Yunnan was hit by another breakout between 1986 and 2005, and another case was diagnosed in Yunnan in 2016. ... After the plague diagnosis in China, ...