5 people in the US have gotten the plague this year: Here's what you should know about the disease.
Whether there are more yearly cases than average can depend on what’s going on in rodents. Plague is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which are carried by fleas that live on rodents including prairie dogs and squirrels. Humans are more likely to become infected with plague when there is an outbreak of the bacterial infection in local wild rodent populations, Jones said.
“It is unusual to have more than one plague-related death in the same year, and few cases result in death,” Dave Morgan, a spokesperson for the New Mexico Department of Health, told NBC News in an email. When plague is caught early and treated with antibiotics, the chance of death falls toThere had not been a plague fatality in the U.S.
Only the third form of plague — pneumonic plague — can be spread from person to person. Pneumonic plague occurs when the infection gets into the lungs, either from untreated bubonic or septicemic plague, or from inhaling infected droplets from another person. It is the most serious form of the disease, the“Early diagnosis is very important,” Jones said, adding that in parts of the U.S. where plague is common, “physicians and veterinarians are on alert for symptoms of plague.
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