Plague outbreak

Friday 13 August 1993 23:02 BST

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A case of bubonic plague ('black death') has been diagnosed in Kazakhstan, the latest in a series of diseases thought to have been eradicated that have resurfaced in the former Soviet Union, Reuter reports from Moscow. Postfactum news agency said a woman had been taken to hospital with symptoms including high fever, chills, painful swellings in the groin and haemorrhages that turn black.

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