A Colorado
man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of plague, an
airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing.
It
is the first case of pneumonic plague seen in the state since 2004,
said Jennifer House, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment. The man, who hasn’t been identified, may have
been exposed in Adams County near Denver, health officials said in a statement. While House said the man has been hospitalized and treated, she wouldn’t release other details about his situation.
“He’s
on treatment long enough to not be transmissible,” House said in a
telephone interview. He may have contracted the illness from his dog,
she said, which died suddenly and has also been found to carry the
disease.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-11/deadliest-rarest-form-of-plague-contracted-near-denver.html
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