Marmot (STOCK PHOTO)FOX NEWS - A 15-year-old Mongolian boy has died after eating a large rodent that was infected with the bubonic plague.The teen ate a marmot, a large rodent that lives in burrows in the North Asian grassland, the country's health ministry announced earlier this week.RELATED: Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in ColoradoAt least two other teens ate the marmot as well but are being treated with antibiotics, ministry spokesperson Narangerel Dorj said, according to the Associated Press.
Their conditions were not made clear.The government imposed a quarantine on a portion of Gobi-Altai province, where the cases occurred.