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A 16-year-old girl has
been diagnosed with bubonic plague in Crook County, Oregon, the local health
authority confirmed. “The
girl is believed to have acquired the disease from a flea bite during a hunting
trip near Heppner in Morrow County that started on October16. She reportedly fell
ill on October 21 and was hospitalized in Bend on October 24. She is recovering
in the hospital’s intensive care unit,” the official press release says.
The
teenage patient is said to be recovering.
No
other infected people have been reported so far.
Humans
can catch plague from fleas that jump from infected rodents, such as squirrels,
chipmunks or rats.
