历史记载包头曾发生过４次人间鼠疫流行，１９８２年首次从长爪沙鼠体内分离出了鼠疫菌，证实了包头市区存在着鼠疫自然疫源性。由于包头市区所处地理位置重要，又是人口众多的大工业城市，在发现疫情后，自治区党委、政府和包头市各级党政领导对此非常重视，从１９８３年开始 Historical records Baotou had occurred 4 times the epidemic of human plague, for the first time in 1982 isolated from the body gerbils gerbil Merionesia confirmed that there is plague epidemic nature of Baotou. Since the urban area of ​​Baotou is located in an important industrial location and a large industrial city with a large population, the party committees and governments in the autonomous region and party and government leaders at all levels in Baotou attach great importance to this after the outbreak of the outbreak was discovered. Since 1983,