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15-Year-Old Dies of Bubonic Plague After Eating Rodent - YouTube

A 15-year-old Mongolian boy has died after eating a large rodent that was infected with the bubonic plague.The teen ate a marmot, a large rodent that lives in burrows in the North Asian grassland, the country's health ministry announced earlier this week.CHINA REPORTS SUSPECTED CASE OF BUBONIC PLAGUE IN INNER MONGOLIAAt least two other teens…

Beijing — A 15-year-old boy has died in western Mongolia of bubonic plague, the country's national news agency reported. The Health Ministry said laboratory tests confirmed the teenager died of plague that he contracted from an infected marmot, according to the Montsame News Agency. A marmot peers out from rocks in a file photo taken in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although the risk of large-scale infections is low with the availability of modern medicine.The health commission in Bayannur city in the region of Inner Mongolia raised its public…