According to media reports, a Mongolian teenager diagnosed with bubonic plague died today, and, according to "Russia Today", the 15-year-old died of a fatal disease after eating marmot meat or "tarban".
The young man ate the meat with the disease, along with two of his friends, the condition of which is unknown, while the people who had contacted them were isolated and vaccinated, according to the country's National Center for Animal Diseases.
It is not strange to eat marmot meat and other rodents, which may transmit the bubonic plague caused by bacteria. The plague contains glial and pulmonary forms (affecting the lung), and it can be killed within a few days of infection. The Mongolian young man died 3 days after eating rodents.
Several cases of bubonic plague were reported in western Mongolia during the past week, with another in China.

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