‘Incredibly alarming’: Posts urge Chinese residents to stockpile as plague rumors fly

Unverified claims of plague cases in China are spreading online, days after a researcher at a Russian plague laboratory died of a pneumonia that authorities say remains unexplained.Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, flagged the rumors on X, noting that posts on Chinese social media have urged residents of the country’s three northeastern provinces to stockpile food...