Teenager Dies Of Plague, Kyrgyzstan Urges Calm

After a 15-year-old boy died of bubonic plague in a rural area Kyrgyzstan appealed for calm. It emphasized that doctors had not identified any new cases among those who had contact with the boy or had shown suspicious symptoms. Temirbek Isakunov, a herdboy from the village of Ichke-Zhergez, died last Thursday in hospital. He is thought to have become infected after being bitten by an oriental flea carried by a marmot that he reportedly prepared for food. The ...