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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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The tarbagan marmot has been eaten for centuries in the native cuisine of Mongolia, and in particular in a local dish called boodog. The meat is cooked by inserting hot stones, preheated in a fire, into the abdominal cavity of a deboned marmot. The skin is then tied up to make a bag, within which the meat cooks. [9]
The plague of 1575–77 claimed some 50,000 victims in Venice. In 1634, an outbreak of plague killed 15,000 Munich residents. [ 32 ] Late outbreaks in central Europe include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 , which is associated with troop movements during the Thirty Years' War , and the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679.
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.
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