Russia cracks down on marmot hunting after bubonic plague alert

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it had stepped up patrols to stop people hunting marmots near its border China and Mongolia after the countries reported possible cases of bubonic plague, which can be carried by the animals.

Authorities in Bayan Nur, a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, issued a warning on Sunday after a hospital reported a suspected case of the deadly disease.

The Chinese region forbade the hunting and eating of the large rodents and asked the public to report any suspected cases, as well as any sick or dead marmots.

Neighbouring Mongolia also reported two cases of bubonic plague linked to people eating marmot meat in its western Khovd province last week.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-cracks-down-on-marmot-hunting-after-bubonic-plague-alert/ar-BB16oQ6A?li=BBnb7Kz

[ace3csusm]

1. Maybe its time to start moving away from China

WHat is going on other there...

[Yavin4]

6. Obama had a plan for that. It was called TPP.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States signed on 4 February 2016, which was not ratified as required and did not come into effect. After the newly elected US president Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP in January 2017,[5] the agreement could not enter into force. The remaining countries negotiated a new trade agreement called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incorporates most of the provisions of the TPP and which entered into force on 30 December 2018.

Many observers have argued the trade deal would have served a geopolitical purpose, namely to reduce the signatories' dependence on Chinese trade and bring the signatories closer to the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

[Initech]

2. Oh hey nice marmot.

[Kali]

3. I knew someone would be here with this!

[Initech]

5. Keeping an amphibious rodent for domestic... that ain't legal either!

[marie999]

4. We used to hike in the mountains in Yosemite National Park

and there were signs that we were in an area where the bubonic plague was found.