Plague — Mongolia
Between late January and early February 1997, an outbreak of plague, associated with cervical lymphadenopathy and fever, occurred in the Jordanian village of Azraq ad-Druze, which lies about 50 km (31 mi) west of the border with Saudi Arabia. The 12 cases who presented at hospital were initially assumed to have tularemia, and all were successfully treated with gentamicin. When, however, their sera were tested for evidence of _Yersinia pestis_ or _Francisella tularensis_ infection (using
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