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Colorado public health officials confirm new case of human plague (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Public health officials in Colorado have confirmed that a human has tested positive for the plague, a rare but potentially deadly infectious disease that’s typically spread through flea bites.

The infected individual is from Pueblo County, according to the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment.

While the plague conjures nightmares of flea-infested rats and dreary medieval villages filled with the dead and dying, in the modern day things aren't so grim.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must be confirmation bias, then. It's usually not in the news all that much. Like, I knew it wasn't unheard of, just thought it was more rare than a few cases a year (was thinking more like a few per decade).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It pops up in the news more than you think. Especially if they feel it's a slow enough news day.

Bubonic plague is really not a disease to be concerned about in 2024 compared to thinks like influenza, which we're doing very little about and which is far more likely to become an untreatable pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Bubonic plague is really not a disease to be concerned about in 2024

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17782-plague

Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague. It’s also the most survivable. With quick antibiotic treatment, you have about a 95% chance of recovering from bubonic plague.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic

However, the effectiveness and easy access to antibiotics have also led to their overuse[12] and some bacteria have evolved resistance to them.[1][13][14][15] The World Health Organization has classified antimicrobial resistance as a widespread "serious threat [that] is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country".[16] Global deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance numbered 1.27 million in 2019.[17]

We could yet wind up with things the way they were!