Kyrgyzstan says plague poses no threat to its neighbors
BISHKEK. August 29. KAZINFORM -The Kyrgyzstan government has said that the death of a teenage suffering bubonic plague in the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan is not a threat to local citizens and neighboring countries, according to local media on Wednesday.
The current situation in the Ak-Suu district, where the 15-year-old boy died, is under the supervision of physicians and epidemiologists of the country, and there is no cause for alarmand panic for locals and the outside world.
To date, 162 people who contacted the boy are receiving prophylactic antibiotic therapy inhospital and there are also additional cases
reported. Currently, health workers are vaccinating villagers or taking other preventive measures.
The epidemiological situation is stable in the region and there is no need to declare quarantine around the Ak-Suu district or the
Issyk-Kul region, said the government.
On August 22, 15-year-old villager Ichke-Zhergez Temirbek Isakunov, who was diagnosed with "form of bubonic plague", died at Ak-Suu hospital after eating bbq made from marmot meat.
Source: China Daily