Plague -- Mongolia
The Mongolian Ministry of Health confirmed 2 people -- a 38-year-old man and his pregnant wife, 37 -- died from plague after consuming raw meat and internal organs of a marmot. Their deaths left 4 children as orphans aged from 2 to 13. Dramatic pictures have shown at least one aircraft being met by anti-contamination emergency workers in a bid to prevent spread of the disease.
The local town of Ulgii (or Olgii) on the border with Russia was shut for quarantine by Mongolian health
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6456511&promed&0
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