Secular Café: Plague case in Oregon

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Plague case in Oregon Jun 15th 2012, 10:03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ndition-oregon Quote: An Oregon man is in a critical condition with the plague after he was bitten while trying to remove a decaying mouse from the mouth of a stray cat. The man, who has not been named but is in his 50s, is believed to have caught the disease that rampaged through Europe in the middle ages and is thought to have wiped out between a quarter and a third of the population. In modern times the disease is rare and treatable with antibiotics but can still be fatal. A local report said the man developed a fever a few days after being bitten on 2 June and was admitted to Crook County hospital... ...Emilio Debess, Oregon's public health veterinarian, said there had been a number of cases of the disease reported in the state since 1934, including four people who had died. An average of 11 cases of plague are reported in the US each year, according to the World Health Organisation, with around 1,000 to 3,000 cases worldwide.

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