Plague — Worldwide/Unknown
Kyrgyzstan officials on Tuesday, 27 Aug 2013, scrambled to control the spread of bubonic plague that killed a rural boy last week as 3 more people showed possible symptoms of the disease. The easternmost district of Ak-Suu [Issyk Kul province] in the Central Asian country was on lockdown while police guarded the hospitals where 15-year-old was treated and died last Thursday, 22 Aug 2013. The emergency ministry said that 3 more people from the same village as the victim were hospitalized
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