Mongolian authorities have locked down the city of Khovd and a region in the province of the same name, after two people tested positive for bubonic plague. They reportedly caught the deadly disease by eating marmots.
Two unidentified individuals contracted the “marmot plague” in the Khovd region, Mongolia’s National Center for Zoonotic Disease (NCZD) said in a statement on Wednesday. Local media reports said the victims were a man, 27, and a young woman of unknown age.
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