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| | Sunshine: Ping Fan Slideshow: 7. The plague attack on Quzhou in 1940 |
 | | A few days later, the first victims in Quzhou died, and soon the plague spread all over the region. |
 | | The local health authorities were unsure about the disease – no case of plague had ever been reported in Quzhou, and no dead rats had been seen in the city, something that usually precedes human plague cases. |
 | | Until 1990, plague antibodies were detected in rats from the Quzhou region, but as monitoring is restricted to spot checks, they are still not sure whether they successfully eradicated plague in the area. |
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