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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.
Mongolia has been and continues to be affected by emerging infectious diseases, including echinococcosis, rabies, tularemia, anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and plague. [18] Since 1980, the WHO has received case reports of human plague cases in Mongolia; each year, approximately 40 people are diagnosed with plague caused by Yersinia pestis ...
The shooting was allegedly retaliation for the murder of a Mongolian Boys Society member by a member of the Asian Crips. [11] The suspects were detained at the Fresno County Jail and faced four counts of homicide, 12 counts of attempted homicide, and conspiracy to commit murder with gang and firearms enhancements. [ 12 ]
Only men aged 18–60 at the time of the crime could be executed; women were not subject to the death penalty. [2] [3] The government has since abolished the death penalty for all crimes. [2] According to Amnesty International, Mongolia, like China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, practiced executions in secrecy.
The 16-year-old boy was shot on Sunday afternoon and later died at the hospital.