Terror in Russian town as boy is struck down with BUBONIC PLAGUE

THOUSANDS of Russians are being given emergency vaccinations against the Bubonic Plague after a boy contracted the deadly infectious disease while skinning a marmot.

Vaccine is being rushed to remote Kosh-Agach in the Altai Mountains in a bid to stop a full scale outbreak of the Black Death infection. 

The ten year old boy was helping his grandfather on a hunting expedition when he caught the plague while skinning the rodent. 

The unnamed child cut himself with the knife he was using, and is now fighting for his life in intensive care with a high fever. 

Today he was in a 'serious but stable' condition.