By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In an update on the plague cases in western Mongolia, the National Center for Zoonotic Diseases reported that a 15-year-old boy had died of suspected bubonic plague...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Russian officials report Thursday that 10 people from Altai Republic, near the Mongolian border, were hospitalized with trichinosis after consuming undercooked bear...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Mongolia Ministry of Health is reporting (computer translated) a suspect case of plague in the western part of the country. According to health officials-translated,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews One year ago this month, China agriculture officials reported the first African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in Asia in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. About a month...

By Robert Herriman  @bactiman63 Two people in #Mongolia who died from #plague in late April after reportedly consuming raw marmot meat. Some were skeptical of this transmission route; however, here I...

Three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in Pakistan during the last week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Cases were confirmed in Lahore district in Punjab...

In September last year, Juan Lubroth, FAO’s Chief Veterinary Officer said concerning the new emergence of African swine fever in China–“Unfortunately, what we’re seeing so far is just the...

Quarantine lifted In a follow-up on the report of two plague deaths, a husband and wife in Mongolia, who reported consumed raw marmot meat, the BBC reports that the 6-day quarantine has been lifted. According...

Health authorities in Mongolia are reporting two deaths in Ulgii district in westernmost Mongolia. Preliminary test results show that bubonic plague is the likely caused the deaths of the husband and...

The Mongolia Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry is reporting two cases of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the northern Darkhan-Uul Province, according to...