{{Doctors in Kyrgyzstan have said a teenage boy has died of bubonic plague, but that an epidemic is not likely.}}<\/p>\n
The death of the 15-year-old herder was confirmed on Monday, several days after his death in the Karakol regional hospital.<\/p>\n
Health ministers said the boy, from the small mountain village Ichke-Zhergez in eastern Kyrgyzstan, died last Thursday after being diagnosed with bubonic plague, which is carried by rodents and caused millions of deaths throughout Europe in the 14th century.<\/p>\n
“After a meeting of doctors, he was diagnosed with bubonic plague,” a statement said.<\/p>\n
His body was cremated and remains were buried with special precautions.<\/p>\n
“We suspect that the patient was infected with the plague through the bite of a flea,” Tolo Isakov, a ministry official who heads the sanitation department, said in Bishkek on Monday.<\/p>\n
The oriental rat flea carries the bubonic plague after biting an infected rodent and may then pass the disease to a human.<\/p>\n
Officials have dispatched two teams to the area to “catch, exterminate, and study rodents,” Isakov said.<\/p>\n
He said the last recorded case of bubonic plague occurred in Kyrgyzstan 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
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