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 "infec...
Plague confirmed in Oregon man bitten by stray catNIGEL DUARASTEVEN DUBOIS
Plague Confirmed in Oregon ManPORTLAND, Ore. - Health officials have confirmed that an Oregonman has the plague after he was...Duara, Nigel
Plagueis a disease caused byYersinia pestis, a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas. In the Middle Ages, the plague caused tens of millions of deaths across Europe in a series of outbreaks known asthe Black Death. While the bacterial infection is still around today, it is far more ra...
During the last decade, plague spread north to Wyoming, northwest to Oregon and west to Nevada. Two cases documented in Illinois and Michigan were traced to manipulations of Y. pestis by laboratory workers49,50, while a third case was documented in Frederick county, Maryland, at the Army's ...
Plague symptoms can manifest in a few ways. 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, ...
Since the mid–20th century, plague has typically occurred in the rural West, in two regions: (1) Northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern Colorado, and (2) California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada. Over 80% of plague cases have been the bubonic form. Plague has ...
All of them — barring one controlled lab-created case in Illinois — have been reported in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, Oregon and Nevada (the northeast has never seen a case!) and are transferred by the chipmunks, squirrels and prairie dogs found in the southwest. Finding ...
More than two dozen fires also were burning in the Pacific Northwest and Idaho, where lightning ignited more blazes inOregonover the weekend amid extremely dry and hot conditions. The largest blazes were active in rural areas of eastern Oregon and Washin...
But overall, “the plague is easily recognized, easily diagnosed and easily treated” with antibiotics nowadays, said Dr. Harish Moorjani, an infectious disease specialist at Phelps Hospital in New York, part of Northwell Health, who is not involved in the Oregon case. Compared with the Middle ...