A 15-year-old boy died of bubonic plague in western Mongolia, health officials said. The teenager caught the often fatal plague after hunting and eating a groundhog in Gobi-Altai province, according to the Mongolian Ministry of Health. Two other teens were being treated with antibiotics after also consuming the large ground …
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Beijing – A 15-year-old boy died in western Mongolia of bubonic plague, the country’s national news agency reported. The Health Ministry said laboratory tests confirmed that the teenager died of the plague he contracted from an infected groundhog, according to the Montsame News Agency. A groundhog peeks out of the …
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A squirrel has tested positive for the bubonic plague in the city of Morrison, Colorado, Jefferson County public health officials announced in a statement over the weekend. The squirrel, discovered Saturday, is the first plague case in Jefferson County, according to the statement. Authorities warned that plague, an infectious disease …
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Photo: Alexey Kartsev (Shutterstock) Yes it’s 2020 And bad things are happening. But diagnosis of some plague cases in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia they do not presage a repetition of the Black Death. As the call murder hornetsThis scare is another failure. As we mentioned before, a few cases of …
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The bubonic plague, caused by a bacterial infection, was chillingly known as “Black Death” when it wiped out some 50 million people in Africa, Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages. Its dark nickname refers to gangrenous blackening and death of body parts, including fingers and toes, which can occur …
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