Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

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Marmots are an important reservoir of Yersinia pestis and a source of human plague in Mongolia. We present two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs and discuss the distribution of natural foci of Y. pestis in Mongolia.

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Plague and Climate: Scales Matter

Tamara Ben-Ari, Simon Neerinckx, Kenneth L Gage … (2011)

Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia, Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat to humans. Its causative agent Yersinia pestis relies on wild rodent hosts and flea vectors for its maintenance in nature. Climate influences all three components (i.e., bacteria, vectors, and hosts) of the plague system and is a likely factor to explain some of plague's variability from small and regional to large scales. Here, we review effects of climate variables on plague hosts and vectors from individual or population scales to studies on the whole plague system at a large scale. Upscaled versions of small-scale processes are often invoked to explain plague variability in time and space at larger scales, presumably because similar scale-independent mechanisms underlie these relationships. This linearity assumption is discussed in the light of recent research that suggests some of its limitations.

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Plague from Eating Raw Camel Liver

Abdulaziz Saeed, Nasser A. Al-Hamdan, Robert Fontaine (2005)

We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel corral.

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Plague in camels and goats: their role in human epidemics.

S S Elberg, T. Chen, Duncan Christie (1980)

In 1976, in a small, remote Libyan village, one apparently sick camel was slaughtered and skinned, and the camel meat was distributed for human comsumption. A few days later, 15 villagers suffered a severe febrile illness. Of the five individuals who had participated in the killing and dispensation of the camel, all were dead within four days. When samples of serum from nine of the remaining patients were examined, seven were found to be positive for plague as determined by the passive hemagglutination test. Another six persons became ill after killing two goats, and the serum of one goat contained antibodies to Yersinia pestis. Because all of the remaining patients except one were treated early enough, they recovered. These incidents confirm previous reports that the camel and the goat are susceptible to naturally occurring plague infection and have a significant role in the dissemination of human plague.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Emerg Microbes Infect

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Emerg Microbes Infect

Title: Emerging Microbes & Infections

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISSN (Electronic): 2222-1751

Publication date (Electronic, pub): 21 August 2020

Publication date (Electronic, collection): 2020

Volume: 9

Issue: 1

Pages: 1878-1880

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[a ]Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen , Essen, Germany

[b ]HyKoMed , Dortmund, Germany

[c ]MeshHp , Essen, Germany

[d ]National Center for Zoonotic Disease Ministry of Health , Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

[e ]MedClean LLC , Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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[CONTACT ] Jan Kehrmann jan.kehrmann@ 123456uk-essen.de Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg , Hufelandstr. 55, 45122Essen, Germany

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Publisher ID: 1807412

DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412

PMC ID: 7473306

PubMed ID: 32762515

SO-VID: 84c46104-e3e6-48b8-9119-8782c7a3a935

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