city hit buy bubonic plague...

[Mortblanc]

If this story is accurate there is more to this outbreak than is evident.

The US has 15-20 cases of Bubonic plague each year and they do not quarantine the entire town where it is found.

This case must have jumped to the Pneumatic or Septic strain and must be more widespread than the one case they are reporting, with 151 people in "isolation". I think "Isolation" might be the Chinese for "they got it too".

However, it is a good indication of the lengths that a government will go in order to control an outbreak in a first world nation.

Compare this reaction to the reaction of the African nations that have allowed the unrestricted spread of Ebola all over west Africa in recent months. Any of those countries can round up enough soldiers to fight a bush war on a moments notice but never enough to quarantine a mud hut village of 100 people.