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A Mongolian couple recently died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, setting off a quarantine that trapped tourists in the country's western Bayan Olgii province for almost a ...
Mar. 8—A Lincoln County man has died of plague, the first human case of the disease in New Mexico since 2021, state officials announced Friday. The man, whose identity has not been publicly ...
In all, New Mexico has had 253 reported cases of plague between 1970 and 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). A map of plague infections in the U.S. by state from 1970 to 2020.
[12] [13] The plague in marmots is of the pneumonic form, spread by marmots coughing. [14] The plague can jump from marmots to humans through the bite of the tarbagan flea (Ceratophyllus silantievi), or through consumption of meat. [13] Marmot epizootics are known to co-occur with human epidemics in the same area.
A plague epidemic known as the Great Northern War plague outbreak, that followed the Great Northern War (1700–1721, Sweden v. Russia and allies) wiped out almost 1/3 of the population in the region. [citation needed] An estimated one-third of East Prussia's population died in the plague of 1709–1711. [38]
If, as later writers allege, al-Alqami had betrayed Baghdad to the Mongols, Hulegu would have had him executed—such was the Mongol policy regarding all traitors. Instead, because of his efforts to dissuade the caliph from a foolish path, he was reappointed to the vizierate, although he died less than three months later. [53]
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The last human plague case in New Mexico involved a Torrance County resident in 2021, the agency said. Four people in the state had bubonic plague in 2020 and one died.