"Plague is rare in Oregon, with the last case reported in 2015," the county said in anews release. "The most common animals to carry plague in Central Oregon are squirrels and chipmunks, but mice and other rodents can also carry the disease." File: Squirrels can cary infected fleas. ( ...
A welder in central Oregon contracted it in 2012 when he pulled a rodent out of his choking cat’s mouth in 2012 — he survived but lost his fingertips and toes to the disease. A Colorado teen contracted a fatal case while hunting in 2015, and Co...
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...
Though the plague has most recently been found in Oregon, most cases occur around the "Four Corners" area of the Southwest — the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona and northwestern corner of New Mexico — primarily between late spring and...
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. The infected resident and the resident's close contacts have all been provided medication, public health officials say, and people in the community are not be...
An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague. Here are a few things to know about the illness 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. ...
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 ...
Public health officials in Oregon have reported a case of bubonic plague in a local resident. They said last week the person likely contracted it from a pet cat. February 13 Black Death’s ancient origins traced to lake in Central Asia Scientists in Europe say they have figured out the ...
First up, in a world in which Peak Oil also seems to be a thing of the past — and in which the inextricably-linked issues of energy security and climate change grow increasingly troubling to anyone who isn’t a) Michael Crichton and/or b) convinced that the Rapture will spirit them aw...
(0.ANT3 and the newly found 0.ANT5 population) within the high-mountain foci from Kyrgyzstan suggests a Central Asian origin for the Justinian’s Plague pandemic [25]. In contrast to the first plague pandemic genomes, all recovered Black Death strains cluster at the root of branch 1, near...