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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 ...
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“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 ...
Mongolian people who died in prison custody (1 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 23 July 2008, at 12:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...