Quarantine Lifted in Mongolia After Bubonic Plague Scare Following Death of Couple

Potomac Phil, a taxidermied version of the groundhog brought out to determine whether or not he sees his shadow sits near by in Washington, on Feb. 2, 2012. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

A quarantine imposed in parts of Mongolia after a couple died of the bubonic plague has now been lifted, according to reports.

Authorities earlier declared a six-day quarantine on May 1 in Mongolia’s western Bayan Olgii Province, according to the BBC, following the deaths of two people who contracted the deadly disease after eating raw marmot meat.