Plague -- Mongolia
A married couple has died, leaving their 4 children orphaned after an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which sparked plane panic.
The man, 38, named only as Citizen T, and his pregnant wife, 37, are thought to have fallen ill after hunting and eating contaminated marmot, a large species of squirrel, in Mongolia. The man died on 27 Apr [2019], and the woman died 3 days later, reports the Siberian Times.
The highly contagious bacterial disease is spread by fleas living on wild rodents. It
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6454287&promed&0
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