Health officials in Kyrgyzstan have confirmed that a teenager who died last week had bubonic plague. Doctors said the 15-year-old herder from a mountain village caught the disease through being bitten by an infected flea possibly from a marmot, a type of ground squirrel that (is) sometimes cooked for food. _______________________________ Although once killed about one third of the population of medieval Europe, bubonic plague can now be treated with antibiotics. 吉尔吉斯斯坦官员确认有一名感染了鼠疫的青少年上周死亡.医生称来自一个山村的十五岁的牧羊人,被一只跳蚤咬后传染了疾病,这只感染了的跳蚤可能来自有时被食用的某一种类的地松鼠,旱獭.___________________________虽然在中世纪的欧洲,鼠疫曾导致三分之一的人丧生,但现在可以用抗生素治疗.
