Kyrgyzstan: One dead, three others sickened by bubonic plague; First cases in three decades
Health officials in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan are reporting that a teenage boy from the small mountain village Ichke-Zhergez in the east of the country died from the bubonic plague, according More...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev background, scholarship to Cambridge, high school photo and Russian Facebook page
Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev emerged as the name of the man in the ongoing manhunt in Boston Friday. According to information culled from multiple unconfirmed reports, Tsarnaev is a 19-year-old reportedly from Kyrgyzstan who More...
Anthrax outbreaks reported in Siberia and Kyrgyzstan
An outbreak of the bacterial disease, anthrax, in the Siberian village of Druzhba has left one person dead and 10 others hospitalized as the Russian government declared a state of emergency in the area in a bid More...