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The teenager, who lived in the remote Gobi Altai province in the southwest of the country, became infected after eating the meat of a hunted whistle, the ministry said.
“We have quarantined 15 people who have been in contact with the deceased, all of whom have been treated with antibiotics,” Narangerell Dorja, a ministry spokesman, told reporters.
Six days of quarantine have been imposed in five districts of the province.
Earlier this month, two more cases of bubonic plague were reported in the province of Chovdo. Another 140 people were studied, but no more cases were found.
After the infection of a shepherd in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, local authorities banned the hunting and consumption of animals that could transmit the disease until the end of the year.
Despite the government’s attempt to keep people away from the meat whistle and to teach them not to approach them, at least one person dies of the plague in Mongolia each year.
In rural areas, people learn to hunt from childhood, and some believe that eating the internal organs of whistles is healthy.
A Kazakh couple died of a plague last year after eating whistle kidneys without heating.
Recent outbreaks of infection have prompted officials in Russia’s Buryatia region of Eastern Siberia to begin inspecting rodents for bubonic plague and urging residents not to hunt whistles or eat meat.
Mongolia’s borders remain closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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