Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Black Death: Pneumonic Plague Appears In Denver

As if worrying about Ebola escaping Africa wasn’t enough Bloomberg is reporting that a Denver man has contracted pneumonic plague. Jennifer House from the Colorado Department of Public Heath and Environment told Bloomberg: House said the man has been hospitalized and treated, she wouldn’t release other details about his situation. “He’s on treatment long enough to not be transmissible,” House said in a telephone interview. He may have contracted the illness from his dog, she said, which died suddenly and has also been found to carry the disease. “We don’t think it’s out in our air,” House said.



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