Bubonic Plague Recorded In China And Mongolia After 3 Year Old Gets Infected Amid Rat Outbreak And Woman Eats Marmot
The 25-year-old female patient from Khovd province in the west of Mongolia has now been placed in isolation at a local hospital, as have 19 of her close contacts, the country’s National Center for Zoonotic Diseases (NCZD) said in a statement. The NCZD said the woman had recently eaten marmot meat and lab testing subsequently confirmed that she had contracted bubonic plague—a disease caused by infection with the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which can be found in wild rodents and the fleas that feed off them....