In the Altai Republic the child had contracted the bubonic plague while cutting a Groundhog, which the family gathered to eat.
According to Life, a ten year old boy helped grandpa to butcher a Groundhog produced on the hunt. The child had cut himself and contracted the infection through blood. After this he got a fever and the doctors suspected plague.
Now the diagnosis has already been confirmed. Seventeen people who had contact with a child placed in a detention center. While the signs of infection they have.
Hunting marmots in the Altai is prohibited because of the risk of Contracting the plague, however, locals still hunt them. In 2014 and 2015 dangerous disease infected two Altaians also from Surkov.
Now, the country began disinfestation areas where plague is found. Surkov ease in the villages of Kosh-Agach, Ortalyk and Mukhor-tarkhata. The exterminator will be on the streets of villages and lay the poisoned bait. In the house where lives the family of the boy will be disinfected.
At the moment, in the village Kosh-Agach, where he lives ill child, 6 thousand 178 persons vaccinated against plague. It is planned to vaccinate more than 12 thousand people.
According to the decision of sanitary-antiepidemic Commission Kosh-Agach district plans to remove all children from cattle-breeding sites, to instill in epidokruzhenii all unvaccinated in the area.
