Terrified tourists quarantined after the "black plague" epidemic in Mongolia

Passengers were taken from a plane and placed under medical supervision for fear of having been in contact with a deceased couple as a result of bubonic plague.

The emergency personnel in protective gear boarded the plane, which had arrived in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, from the towns of Bayan, Uglii and Kohvd. Siberian time reported.

They were deployed while the passengers were concerned that their passengers had been in contact, directly or indirectly, with their husbands and pregnant women, aged 38 and 37, and Uglii, who had died as a result of the disease. April 27th.

Eleven passengers from western Mongolia were held at the airport and sent immediately for hospital checks, while more than 150 others were examined at the airport.

The couple would have contracted the deadly disease after eating a groundhog, which is a big squirrel.

Cattle roam the frozen landscape on March 14, 2010 in Bayantsogt, Tuv Province, Mongolia. An outbreak of bubonic plague has been reported in this landlocked country of Central Asia.
Paula Bronstein / Getty Images Dr. N. Tsogbadrakh, director of the Mongolian National Center for Dermatology and Zoonotic Medicine, said, according to Siberian time: "Although the ban on eating groundhogs is forbidden, the citizen [the male victim] groundhog hunted. He ate the meat and gave it to his wife, and they died because the plague affected her belly. Four children are orphans. "

In addition, a key border near the Russian city of Novosibirsk and the Mongolian city of Uglii was suddenly closed until May 5.

According to the World Health Organization, bubonic plague can kill an adult in less than 24 hours if it is not treated properly and is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is usually found in small mammals and their fleas.

Human symptoms of infection include fever, chills, headaches and often swelling of the lymph nodes under the armpits.

The bacterium was linked to the Black Death that killed more than a third of the European population in the 14th century.

The WHO said that between 2010 and 2015, 3,248 cases had been reported worldwide, including 584 deaths. There are vaccines against the plague, but none are available for the general public, Mail Online reported.

Last year, a young boy from Idaho was diagnosed with the disease among the first human cases in that state since the early 1990s, reported Mail Online.

The disease infects about seven Americans a year and can usually be treated with antibiotics. There are still epidemics of the disease in Africa. In 2017, some 200 people died of the plague in Madagascar.