The plague often associates medieval history and centuries – the old black death of death, but a recent death of northern Arizona is a broken reminder of Leasing the flea ear is held in parts of the world,, including the US. Local Coconino Coconino Health Officers in Arizona, which includes the city of Flagstaff, confirmed late last week that A man there died of pneumonic plague– an intense infection of the lungs caused Yersinia Pestithe bacteria behind the disease.
Human and death infections from the plague are somewhat rarely in the US; According to centers for disease control and avoidance, Seven human cases reported each year in common. Before Arizona case, the most recent death was reported in 2021. Y. Pesti Arrival at the ports of the port of US about 1900 and ever became endemic of mice and other rodents in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Nevada.
“From a public view of US health, a frightening thing, and it is sad that it is a deadly case in Northern Arizona, but it is not to put your seat belt to go to the Western US”
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American American Talking with Wagner about signs and symptoms of the plague, and the continuation of time.
(An edited transcript in the interview follows.)
How do people get sick of the plague?
The plague causes bacteria Y. Pesti And a disease of rodents and their fleas. You have an infected rodent; a flea fed with blood in that rodent, and it picked up some Y. Pesti. After the flea feeds another rodent, it can pass through Y. Pesti. It continues to bike back and forth between rodents and fleas in nature; That’s how it was kept for thousands of environmental years around the world.
What is the difference between bubonic and pneumonic plague?
It’s called black deaths; They call this plague strike; They call this pneumonic plague – it’s the same disease, only different clinical appearances. What is standing (in the present case is) that it pneumonic plague. That kind of rare, especially in the US
Too many people’s cases, with some exceptions, derived from the environment – from the bite of an infected flea. If there is no rodent host for that flea to feed, it will look for other mammals to feed. And when people happen to close closer, it will eat people and bring Y. Pesti.
If the immune system does not stop Y. Pesti At the red flea source, it migrate through your lymphatic system to your closest lymph node. So let’s tell me a little on my wrist; Then the bacteria go to the lymph node on my underarm and start repeating there. And that mass roaming, which sweeps lymph nodes, called a spill – so it is called a bubonic plague. These days, it’s dead because there is no transmission-borte-borne transmission from someone to another. It just went there with the treatment or death of that person.
However, no more determined, however, the plague stroke can fall into your lungs by bloodstream. Which is called secondary plague of pneumonic. Individuals, then, by cough or direct contact, can spread people-of-person people, and called that main pneumonic plague of pneumonic.
What people don’t know so the plague is the end of the western US in rodent populations for more than 100 years.
A person can also get pneumonic plague from an animal – for example, if they control an infected animal and that animal is flowing. Central Asia hunters can kill (infected) ground squirrels, and if they print them may weaken particles. People also talked about septicemic plague, and that means it was taken in your bloodstream, and that often appeared from the bubonic plague. You can also get (septicemic plague) directly when you cut your hands and manage rodents with no gloves.
Can pets affect or send the plague to people?
Pets, especially free roaming, can meet dead rodents dead in plague. The fleas can face pets, then take it home. It is rarely because the US man cases in the US, but that is something we think.
Flea and Tint Collars are a good idea. If animals get sickMost evidence shows that dogs fight infection and produce antibodies against Y. Pesti. The cats are easier to quickly and easily ill and can actually make a pneumonic plague. Super, super rare, but that’s a possible way so people will be bright on pneumonic plague.
What are the symptoms and treatments?
With plague strokes, people often develop a fever, headache, chills and fatigue, and then they can get the named lymph nodes called the baked lymphs. It usually takes a few days to show because this type of starting stealthy mode inside the body to try and avoid resistance.
The plague is easily treated with many different types of antibiotics, as long as it is caught in time. If not yet determined, Bubonic plague of mortality plague May in one place between 30 to 60 percent, depending on the situation. The pneumonic plague, left unchanged, almost always fatal. So the diagnostics are important. The challenge is that many US doctors have not yet found plague. Symptoms are somewhat common other things, so the quick test of the lab can help.
Where do the plague of the US and the whole world often find?
What people don’t know so the plague is the end of the western US in rodent populations for more than 100 years. This has happened many of the rodent host species in Central Asia, where it flourished, similar to some squirrels in California’s Ground Squirrels in 1908 and was in the population of man before. And then it spreads very strongly to the east and a sort of stopping the western edges of North Standot, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It’s a little mystery why; The different rodent and climate changes are relatively small in (that region).
I also work at the plague of madagascar partners, with Many human strife cases than any country-A 75 percent worldwide (case) in total. It has hundreds of thousands of cases each year, with some dead.
How’s it going for many years?
We don’t have a good handle where rodents actually keep the US so we’re going to go out and collect prairie drought because of Prairie activity. Prairie dogs are ground squirrels living in dense colonies, so they are more complicated. If prairie dogs died, we will go out and collect fleas from their holes. We took a piece of white flannel, breathing it to reveal it to carbon dioxide, and then put it in holes. The fleas jumps, and then we bring it back to our laboratory and discharge them to kill them. Then we can study the Y. Pesti DNA straight from fleas. We are very careful if we do it, and we talk to our physicians here in northern Arizona University. Every year we will review the symptoms and we give us a prescription for antibiotics. Then we do what we call a fever watch, where we take our temperature before we go out.
Prairie dogs can’t keep it because they’re easy to quickly – it just wipes it in a whole colony when it’s going to come. But there are other mysteries in western US
How did it make less risk?
There are three famous pandams in the history phase, and estimates that they may be 250 million people die (total). But we no longer have large pandams because we have cleansed, control the rat populations in towns – and then, more importantly, we have antibiotics.
