Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

Jan Kehrmann; Walter Popp; Battumur Delgermaa; Damdin Otgonbayar; Tsagaan Gantumur; Jan Buer; Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh

doi:10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412

Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec;9(1):1878-1880. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412.

Authors

Jan Kehrmann¹, Walter Popp^{2

3}, Battumur Delgermaa⁴, Damdin Otgonbayar⁴, Tsagaan Gantumur⁵, Jan Buer¹, Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
² HyKoMed, Dortmund, Germany.
³ MeshHp, Essen, Germany.
⁴ National Center for Zoonotic Disease Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
⁵ MedClean LLC, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Abstract

Marmots are an important reservoir of Yersinia pestis and a source of human plague in Mongolia. We present two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs and discuss the distribution of natural foci of Y. pestis in Mongolia.

Keywords: Mongolia; Plague; epidemiology; marmot; sepsis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Female
Foodborne Diseases / microbiology
Foodborne Diseases / mortality*
Humans
Male
Marmota / microbiology
Mongolia
Plague / drug therapy
Plague / mortality*
Raw Foods / microbiology*
Yersinia pestis / isolation & purification*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Bundesministerium für Gesundheit [grant number ZMV I1 - 2518 IGW 005].