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Epidemic And Plague

Colorado Department of Public Health urges caution after plague case in Montezuma County

It is thought the plague was contracted on private property

DATE: Jun 29, 2023 | CATEGORY: Community

Prairie dog tests positive for plague in La Plata County

No known human exposure to the rodent, its colony or fleas in the area

DATE: Jul 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Fleas with plague found in La Plata County

San Juan Basin Public Health urges residents to take precautions

DATE: Jul 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Possible plague death reported in La Plata County

Case would mark first such death since 2015

DATE: Jul 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

La Plata County resident tests positive for septicemic plague

Health department says person has since recovered

DATE: Jul 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wuhan’s signature noodles become a symbol of solidarity amid the coronavirus outbreak

This is how most Americans have come to know the Chinese city of Wuhan, where health workers are trying to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus outbreak: a panicked metropolis, a has...

DATE: Feb 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Quarantined people would be isolated at Fort Carson

FORT CARSON – Any people quarantined at Fort Carson because of the coronavirus outbreak will be housed in a location away from from the living and working areas of soldiers, their families a...

DATE: Feb 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

In fight against opioid abuse, doctors in Southwest Colorado reduce prescriptions

Some patients receive shorter doses, others alternative medications

DATE: Feb 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Obama sends Congress $1.9B request to combat Zika virus

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Monday sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S. He is also request...

DATE: Feb 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

WHO declares global emergency over Zika virus spread

GENEVA – The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the explosive spread of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in the Americas, calling it an “extraor...

DATE: Feb 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika

RIO DE JANEIRO – Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment – the d...

DATE: Jan 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Plague arrives in La Plata County

Rodents in Trappers Crossing test positive

DATE: Aug 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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