Plague symptoms can manifest in a few ways. Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria get into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever, headache, weakness and painful, swollen lymph nodes. It usually h...
Bubonic plague— the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria gets into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever, headache, weakness and painful, swollen lymph nodes. It usually happens from the bite of an infected flea, according to the CDC. Septicemic plaguesymp...
Apet ownerhas caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may have caught it from their cat. The Deschutes County Health Services confirmed the case of the plague in a local resident last week. The resident was likely "infe...
In the Middle Ages, plague caused a pandemic known as the "Black Death." Millions in Europe died. Dr. Harish Moorjani, an infectious disease specialist at Northwell Health in Westchester County, N.Y., who is not involved in the Oregon case, told CNN that people should...
According to the OHA this is the only case in Oregon. An August report from the Center for Disease Control reported 11 cases of human plague for this year, an abnormally high number, leaving three dead of those cases. [viaCosmopolitan] ...
Oregon Teenager Diagnosed with Bubonic PlagueA teenager in Oregon has been diagnosed with bubonic plague, the illness that killed tens of...Muskal, Michael
A month before that, there was a confirmed case in Oregon, and authorities are telling us that the victim was“likely infected by their pet cat”in that case… Health officials announced this week that a resident of Deschutes County — a rural part of Oregon — was diagnosed with plague, ...
Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who likely got the disease from a sick pet cat. From Seattle Times On the larger side of the small-mammal spectrum are squirrels, known to spread bubonic plague, which was known as the Black Death when ...
It was the first bubonic plague case Snow and her colleagues had seen. The bubonic plague hasn't been confirmed in a human in Colorado since 2006, when four cases were reported, according to state health officials. But, this past June, a man in Oregon contracted the disease after a cat ...
Pet owner catches the bubonic plague from their cat in Oregon, officials say.STOCK/Tiffany Hagler-Geard/ABC News The case is the first example of the bubonic plague in Oregon since 2015, according to the state's health authority, and plague is "rare" in the state. ...