by One person has died in Coconino County, Arizona, at the pneumonia, the first such death there since 2007-obtewohl to say that death recently related to Prairie Dogs in the region that could also be plague.
Health officers in the Coconino County, which is part of the Grand Canyon National Park and north of Flagstaff, confirmed death on July 11th.
Pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection, is rare in humans, with only about seven cases being reported in the United States annually. In contrast to Bubonic Pest, which killed millions in medieval Europe, it can be spread through air droplets.
While both are caused by the Yersinia Pestis bacterium, Bubonic Pest is transmitted by rodent flea bites or contact with contaminated material – and mainly affects the lymph nodes, while the pneumonian plague causes pneumonia and breath symptoms.
The authorities said that the person whose age, name and gender had not been published had entered the emergency room of the Flagstaff Medical Center and died on the same day.
The hospital operator Northern Arizona Healthcare said in a statement that despite the reasonable initial management and the attempts to make a life -saving revival, the patient had not recovered.
The death of the resident of the Coconino County is the first pneumonic plague in the county in 18 years, but not the recent case of man in Arizona – the state has had seven cases of Pest since 2006.
According to the American advice cases, the US centers for the control and prevention and prevention of diseases (CDC) are reported annually, but only 15 plague deaths were recorded in a period of 23 years that died in 2000 from 2000. Most cases have been observed in rural areas in the West.
Typically, according to the CDC, Yersinia Pestis is naturally cycled among wild rodents. And although most of them forgive the disease by flea bites, they can infect themselves by exposure to sick pets, especially cats.
The plague death comes when civil servants in the county examine a sudden death of Prairie Dogs northeast of Flagstaff, which can be caused by plague. District officers said they do not believe that the death of the human plague and the mortality of prairie dogs are related.
However, they also published guidelines to avoid the procurement of the plague, including avoiding contacts with wild animals, touch sick or dead animals, camping near rodents or directly on the floor. You recommend using insect offices and putting your pants’ cuffs in your socks.
Health officers Coconino County said that the risk of transmission of pneumonic plague from humans is low. The last such broadcast took place in Los Angeles in 1924, according to the data of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Nevertheless, the symptoms of black death – named after black spots that occurred on infected bodies – remain. US health officers say that plague symptoms typically occur within eight days of exposure and possibly cover fever, shaking frost, headache, weakness and muscle pain, and some can develop swollen lymph nodes (referred to as “bubes”), most often in the bar, armpit or limbs.
But the timing of the death of the human plague and the death of the prairie dog makes concerns. Plague is one of many diseases that are endemic in the southwestern USA, including the West Nil virus, Hantavirus and rabies.
Trish Lees, communications manager of the Coconino County, told the Republic of Arizona that the number of prairie dogs died was unknown.
