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The Health Ministry said laboratory tests confirmed the teenager died of plague that he contracted from an infected marmot.
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 ...
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[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 ...
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.
“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 ...
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.