{"id":45710,"date":"2021-07-20T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/plague-found-in-fleas-collected-after-death-of-girl-in-la-plata-county\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:50:00","slug":"plague-found-in-fleas-collected-after-death-of-girl-in-la-plata-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/plague-found-in-fleas-collected-after-death-of-girl-in-la-plata-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Plague found in fleas collected after death of girl in La Plata County"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Humans can contract the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, when bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying this pathogen, or by handling an infected animal. Murine typhus, due to Rickettsia typhi bacteria, can also be transmitted by rodent fleas to humans.<\/span>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the plague in fleas collected in La Plata County after a 10-year-old girl died from the disease earlier this month, public health officials said.<\/p>\n

The plague-positive fleas were collected from a private property in south central La Plata County after residents reported a nearby prairie dog colony had gone \u201csilent\u201d and that the activity of the animals was no longer visible, said Dr. Jennifer House, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment\u2019s state veterinarian Monday. Health officials have not confirmed the girl who died was infected by fleas from the colony under investigation.<\/p>\n

Health officials were notified of the potential case July 5 and days later, confirmed that the girl died from the plague \u2014 the state\u2019s first human plague death since 2005. The Durango Herald <\/em> reported that the fourth grader <\/a> raised hogs in 4-H.<\/p>\n

Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plague-positive fleas were collected from a prairie dog colony that went \u2018silent\u2019 shortly after a 10-year-old girl died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45710"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}