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People flee Chinese town hit by plague

By Associated Press
August 5, 2009

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Residents of a remote farming town in western China said yesterday that people were seeking to flee in defiance of a lockdown by authorities meant to prevent the spread of highly infectious pneumonic plague that has claimed three lives in the area. (Full article: 218 words)

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