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
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