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Mongolia: aircraft potentially infected with bubonic plague
Eleven passengers under observation. Russia closes the border
![Personnel protected by special overalls on board of an aircraft potentially infected by a bubonic plague at the Ulan Bator airport, Mongolia](https://avionews.it/resources/big/89a5e394992130c7ce8d756dda0f5fae.jpg.webp)
An aircraft of an unnamed company was quarantined upon arrival at the airport of the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator due to the outbreak of a bubonic plague in the aircraft take-off area. That is the province of Bayan-Olgii, in the far west of Mongolia, on the border with Russia, Afghanistan and China, where in recent days a man died for having contracted the terrible disease after hunting and eating...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency