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The Health Ministry said laboratory tests confirmed the teenager died of plague that he contracted from an infected marmot.
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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 ...
[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.
“At present, there is a risk of a human plague epidemic spreading in this city,” a local health agency told China Daily. China’s Inner Mongolia on high alert over suspected bubonic plague ...
Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa (Mongolian: Шаарийбуугийн Алтантуяа; sometimes also Altantuya Shaariibuu; 6 May 1978 – 18 October 2006), a Mongolian national, was a murder victim who was either murdered by PETN and RDX explosives or was somehow killed first and her remains destroyed with explosives on 18 October 2006 in a deserted area in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
By the time the purges ended in early 1939, an entire stratum of Mongolian society [25] had effectively been exterminated while much of Mongolia's cultural heritage lay in ruins. [26] Approximately 18,000 lamas were condemned to death while thousands more were forcibly laicized and conscripted into the Mongolian army.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's northern region of Inner Mongolia reported two cases of bubonic plague on Saturday, following a previous infection that was detected on Aug. 7, the local government said.