A couple ate raw marmot believed to have health benefits. Then, they died of the plague.

For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia’s westernmost province were largely deserted. “After the quarantine [was announced], not many people – even locals – were in the streets for fear of catching the disease,” Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two […]

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