Bubonic Plague Cases
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Bubonic plague cases. China news service getty images. Bubonic cases are rare but there are still a few flare ups of the disease from time to time. The bubonic plague known as the black death in the middle ages is a highly infectious and often fatal disease that is spread mostly by rodents photograph.
Madagascar saw more than 300 cases during an outbreak in 2017. In the chinese region of inner mongolia a city is on high alert after authorities confirmed a case of the bubonic plague the disease that once caused the most deadly pandemic in human history. Bubonic plague is most commonly transmitted to humans by rodents and fleas via bites and scratches.
This is the first case of bubonic plague in the state for 26 years and only the fifth since 1940. In recent decades an average of seven human plague cases have been reported each year range. 1 17 cases per year.
Plague has occurred in people of all ages infants up to age 96 though 50 of cases occur in people ages 12 45. Authorities confirmed that a 15 year teen died after. However a study in medical journal the.
Over 80 of united states plague cases have been the bubonic form. Bubonic plague caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis and can cause flu like symptoms including. Left untreated the bubonic plague which is typically transmitted from animals to humans by fleas has a fatality rate of 30 percent to 60 percent according to the bbc.