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A teenager from Oregon found the bubonic plague

Bubonic plague

The bacterium Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of bubonic plague and many other forms of this disease. Photo: Rocky Mountain Laboratories

A 16-year-old girl is hospitalized with bubonic plague in Oregon. Doctors believe she became infected after being bitten by an infected flea during a hunting trip.

The state health department reported that the first signs of ailment appeared in a teenager on October 21, five days after the trip began, and on October 24 she was hospitalized. Now the girl continues to remain in the intensive care unit under the supervision of doctors, but details of her condition are not reported.

Plague is a fairly rare disease, but its activity in the United States has increased in recent years. About a dozen deaths are recorded annually. In the five months from April to August 2015, 11 cases were diagnosed in six states and three people died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Oregon, over the past 20 years, only eight cases of human infection with plague have been reported, but none of them has been fatal.

There are fewer cases of infection with bubonic plague - on average about seven per year. Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that over the past two decades, the death rate from bubonic plague has dropped from 66% to 11%.

It is noted that since the beginning of the year in the US, 15 cases of human infection with this dangerous disease have been recorded, four infected have died.

Despite the fact that the plague is considered a disease of past centuries, its foci continue to exist in nature. Plague bacteria are mediated by wild animals and parasites. Bacteria can be carriers of bacteria, mice, proteins. Fleas are infected by them, and then they infect humans through bites.

Among the two options for infection with plague is called contact with an infected animal or contact with a patient who is sick with pneumonic plague. However, you should know that most infections are still transmitted from animals to humans.

Bubonic plague affects the lymphatic system, causing the lymph nodes to swell. These tumors, known as buboes, tend to appear in the groin, neck, and armpits. In addition, at the site of a flea bite, black abscesses may appear, which darken as a result of subcutaneous bleeding.

During the period from one to six days that the plague bacterium is in the body, people begin to experience symptoms similar to the common flu - fever, chills, various pains, vomiting and nausea. Without special treatment, the mortality rate ranges from 66 to 95% of cases. Sometimes the plague kills a person in one or two days.

However, modern antibiotics can, in most cases, defeat the bubonic plague. If you immediately start taking them, you can recover very quickly.

As Forum wrote earlier, the most dangerous areas of the United Statesin which all cases of plague were recorded in 2015, include New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado. The official border of the spread of the disease is the 100-th meridian.

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