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Town Sealed Off After Deadly Outbreak

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BEIJING (Aug. 3)- A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said.
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It sounds like something out of a movie: A highly contagious disease forces officials to quarantine an entire town. But that\'s exactly what happened in northwest China as health authorities struggle to contain a deadly outbreak of pneumonic plague. \n\n