Officials believe that he was bitten by an infected flea.
The plague is often carried by wild rodents and can be transmitted to humans if they are bitten by an infected rodent or flea.
As a herder, the boy was quite often out in brush lands where wild rodents live.
Over one hundred people have now been quarantined, as a precaution, and two thousand have been tested.
The government has placed a ban on livestock travel and set up check points in the area, to further ensure nothing can be spread.
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