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Boy contracts bubonic plague from marmot
Published: 11:18 am, Thursday, 14 July 2016
A Russian boy in Siberia's Altai Mountains has contracted bubonic plague while skinning marmots after a hunt, local media report.
The 10-year-old was brought to a hospital in the rural town of Kosh-Agach the previous day in critical condition with a temperature above 40C, state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.
The boy was diagnosed as having the plague, and 17 people with whom he had recently been in contact were quarantined, the report said.
Boy contracts bubonic plague from marmot
Published: 11:18 am, Thursday, 14 July 2016
A Russian boy in Siberia's Altai Mountains has contracted bubonic plague while skinning marmots after a hunt, local media report.
The 10-year-old was brought to a hospital in the rural town of Kosh-Agach the previous day in critical condition with a temperature above 40C, state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.
The boy was diagnosed as having the plague, and 17 people with whom he had recently been in contact were quarantined, the report said.