Bubonic plague outbreak feared as another boy hospitalised by Black Death case
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mirror.co.ukA 16-year-old boy has been struck down by a suspected new case of the 'Black Death' bubonic plague today. Authorities in Mongolia are wrestling with what is feared to be a new outbreak of bubonic plague as health officials begged young people to take the threat of Black Death infection seriously.
The teen was said to have defied warnings not to eat the meat of potentially infected rodents and is now in hospital. Top health officials today pleaded with social media influencers to stop glamorising the hunting and eating of marmots which carry the highly contagious disease.
The teenager from Govi-Altai province in western Mongolia ate marmot on Tuesday and developed a fever on Wednesday. Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease spread by fleas
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