Black Death update: Boy diagnosed with bubonic plague in Idaho, USA – Is Black Death back?
DEADLY Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, has been diagnosed in Idaho, United States of America. Is the devastating disease making a comeback?
By GEORGINA LAUD
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jun 18, 2018
A child from Idaho, US had contracted bubonic plague, much to the surprise of doctors and health authorities.
The rare infectious disease is passed on through infected fleas, contact with an animal bitten by a flea and contact with infected humans.
The child in question had been on a trip to Oregon, so health authorities are investigating as to whether the disease was contracted in Idaho or Oregon.
Known as the “Black Death”, millions were killed in the Middle Ages after a deadly strain was thought to have been brought to Europe on merchant ships via rats.
Eight people have been diagnosed with bubonic plague in Oregon since 1990, with squirrels tested for traces of the disease.
In 2015 and 2016 several squirrels tested positive for bubonic plague, originating in Elmore County which is where the infected child lives.
However, the Idaho Central District Health Department have said that no traces of the disease were found in squirrels tested this year.
Symptoms of the plague occur within two to six days of exposure, and include fever, chills, headache and weakness.
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