{"id":90392,"date":"2019-05-07T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/after-eating-raw-rodents-kidney-for-good-health-couple-dies-of-bubonic-plague-sparks-quarantine"},"modified":"2019-05-07T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:22:59","slug":"after-eating-raw-rodents-kidney-for-good-health-couple-dies-of-bubonic-plague-sparks-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/after-eating-raw-rodents-kidney-for-good-health-couple-dies-of-bubonic-plague-sparks-quarantine","title":{"rendered":"After eating raw rodent\u2019s kidney for \u2018good health,\u2019 couple dies of bubonic plague, sparks quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-eating-raw-rodents-kidney-for-good-health-couple-dies-of-bubonic-plague-sparks-quarantine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat, sparking a quarantine that trapped tourists for days, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/asia\/mongolian-couple-dies-of-plague-after-eating-raw-marmot-meat-11508848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP<\/a>, the couple died May 1 in a remote area of the country\u2019s Bayan-\u00d6lgii province, which borders China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A six-day quarantine of 118 people who had come in contact with the couple, including locals and a number of foreign tourists, had been lifted as of Tuesday, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev, a World Health Organization official, <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-48182646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2019\/05\/07\/bubonic-plague-deaths-marmot-meat-mongolia-spark-quarantine\/1126785001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat, sparking a quarantine that trapped tourists for days, officials said Monday. According to AFP, the couple died May 1 in a remote area of the country\u2019s Bayan-\u00d6lgii province, which borders China and Russia. A six-day quarantine of 118 people who had come [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}