Oregon health officials confirm first human bubonic plague case since 2015

Fox News via Yahoo ^ | 2/11/24 | Stephen Sorace

[bitt]

and think of all the migrant camps overrun with rodents...

tent cities with feces and trash..

thanks, Biden.

[Jane Long]

Getting what they (majority) voted for?

[Beowulf9]

Exactly.

We have antibiotics now, too, people.

Bubonic plague aint what she used ta be.

[BigEdLB]

Hunter Biden’s cat?

[BigEdLB]

M E O W

[LibertyOh]

As long as caught and recognized early. My cousin’s husband got real sick suddenly, died in hospital. Once they figured out what it was the police came and searched her home as he had been a pharmacist and they were concerned he was developing something. No, just living in a very rural area and had mice in a shed ultimately determined to be the source.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease ping - Oregon's first case of bubonic plague since 2015 ( Deschutes County )
A singlar incident of record, so far ..

bitt :"and think of all the migrant camps overrun with rodents...
tent cities with feces and trash..
thanks, Biden."

(from the article):" An Oregon resident has been infected with the state’s first case of bubonic plague since 2015, health officials said last week."

"The resident was likely infected with plague by their symptomatic pet cat, Deschutes County Health Services said in a news release on Wednesday.
"All close contacts of the resident and their pet have been contacted and provided medication to prevent illness," Dr. Richard Fawcett,
the Deschutes County health officer, said in the release without identifying the infected resident. "

"Officials said there was little risk to the community since the case was identified and treated in the earlier stages of the disease.
No additional cases of plague have emerged during the communicable disease investigation."

"The bubonic plague can progress into the more severe and difficult to treat septicemic plague (bloodstream infection) and/or pneumonic plague (lung infection)
if not diagnosed early.
The last case of human plague in Oregon was reported in 2015, according to Oregon Health Authority."

" ..Humans typically begin to show symptoms of the plague within two to eight days of exposure.
Symptoms can include a sudden onset of fever, nausea, weakness, chills,
muscle aches and visibly swollen lymph nodes called buboes.
Humans can be infected through bites or contact with infected fleas or animals."

[gleeaikin]

A number of years ago I read that Bubonic Plague was endemic amoung the wild rodents in about 17 western states. I sonder if Covid has kept some people out of wilderness areas for travel and recreation?