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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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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]
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 ...
A suspected case of bubonic plague, the potentially deadly infection that’s transmitted by fleas and typically spreads through wild rodents, has prompted a citywide alert in the Chinese ...
The Stalinist repressions in Mongolia (Mongolian: Их Хэлмэгдүүлэлт, romanized: Ikh Khelmegdüülelt, lit. 'Great Repression') was an 18-month period of heightened political violence and persecution in the Mongolian People's Republic between 1937 and 1939. [ 1 ]
T he plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...