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Mongolia: aircraft potentially infected with bubonic plague
Eleven passengers under observation. Russia closes the border
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