2024-03-01 16:51:56
The case, which occurred in the state of Oregon, does not represent a significant risk for the rest of the population, according to health authorities in that country.
Health authorities in the United States confirmed the detection of a case of bubonic plague in that country, eight years after the last episode that had been recorded.
Also known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague it would have been transmitted to the victim by his cataccording to the hypothesis used by the same authorities.
The case occurred in Deschutes County, in the state of Oregon, and as confirmed, does not represent a significant risk to the rest of the population, after the victim’s treatment began. Also contacts of the infected person were contacted and given medication with the disease.
Deschutes health service spokesman Richard Fawcett reported the victim’s cat died and had abscesses of pus.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the most common infection occurs through the bite of infected fleas. These are found in rats and mice that cats hunt.
Bubonic plague in the world
Although in most developed countries the bubonic plague has been practically eradicated, there are others in which it is still remains an endemic disease, as occurs in Mongoliaaccording to the WHO.
The most remembered bubonic plague epidemic is the one that affected Europe in the 14th century and that It meant the death of about a third of the population of that continent.
His best-known name comes from those years: to black fish.