{"id":117811,"date":"2014-09-16T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/second-human-plague-case-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T22:59:42","slug":"second-human-plague-case-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/second-human-plague-case-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Second human plague case confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A family member said the woman didn\u2019t want to be identified and that a prairie dog colony recently died on her property.<\/p>\n<p>Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague; septicemic plague is less common. Symptoms typically include fever, chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, shock and bleeding into the skin and other organs.<\/p>\n<p>Septicemic plague can be contracted by handling an infected animal or from bites of infected fleas. This is the second case of plague in La Plata County this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1957, Colorado has identified 65 cases of human plague, nine (14 percent) of which were fatal.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred and fifty-seven samples have been tested for plague this year at public health laboratories. Two rodents, a rabbit, a dog and a cat have tested positive for plague in Colorado. Fourteen flea samples also have tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Because domestic cats and dogs can carry infected fleas into the home, it is important to consult a veterinarian about how to effectively control fleas on pets.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit www.cdc.gov\/plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family member said the woman didn\u2019t want to be identified and that a prairie dog colony recently died on her property. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague; septicemic plague is less common. Symptoms typically include fever, chills, extreme weakness, abdominal pain, shock and bleeding into the skin and other organs. Septicemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6371],"tags":[2011,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-117811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mt-news","tag-epidemic-and-plague","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117811"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=117811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}