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Two brothers have contracted the plague after reportedly eating marmots in Mongolia.
The siblings – aged 27 and 16 – are believed to have caught the potentially deadly disease after hunting and then consuming the animal in the country, authorities have said.
Two suspected cases in the western Khovd province came back as the plague in laboratory tests, according to Mongolia’s National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases.
The ministry of health said earlier this week a 27-year-old patient was being treated with “marmot plague and secondary lung disease” according to a preliminary diagnosis.
He was in a “very severe condition” and had “multiple organ failure”, the department said.
www.independent.co.uk
The siblings – aged 27 and 16 – are believed to have caught the potentially deadly disease after hunting and then consuming the animal in the country, authorities have said.
Two suspected cases in the western Khovd province came back as the plague in laboratory tests, according to Mongolia’s National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases.
The ministry of health said earlier this week a 27-year-old patient was being treated with “marmot plague and secondary lung disease” according to a preliminary diagnosis.
He was in a “very severe condition” and had “multiple organ failure”, the department said.
Two brothers infected with plague 'after eating marmot meat'
Siblings are thought to have hunted and consumed animal
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