08/27/2013, 00.00
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Kyrgyzstan, the nightmare of bubonic plague returns

A teenager in the northeast of the country dies from disease. Doctors test population and distribute medicines. Bishkek fears the epidemic and sets up checkpoints and quarantines citizens in the region where the boy died.

Bishkek (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Temir Issakunov, a 15 year old native of northeastern Kyrgyzstan, died last week of bubonic plague. This is the first case in 30 years. The exact dynamics of the infection are still uncertain, but according to initial hypotheses put forward by doctors the disease has passed from rodents to humans by fleas.

Concerned by the possibility of an epidemic, the authorities in Bishkek have intensified their control in the northeastern region of the country on the border with Kazakhstan, imposing controls and preventive care on the population. "We suspect that the patient was infected by a flea bite," the Minister of Health Tolo Isakov said in recent days.

A team of experts has already been sent to the affected area to distribute antibiotics and carry out tests. In the region of Issik-Kul, at least 2 thousand people were examined, and a hundred of them are already in quarantine.

The bubonic plague, now very rare, is an epidemic disease that decimated the population of Europe during the Middle Ages killing at least 25 million people. It spreads primarily through rodents. The last confirmed cases, according to data provided by the World Health Organisation, were recorded in Peru in 2010, when at least 12 people were found infected.

 

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