A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said.
The unidentified patient, from Coconino County, showed up to the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and died there the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare said in a statement. It is unclear when the death occurred.
The hospital noted that “appropriate initial management” and “attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation” was performed, but “the patient did not recover.”
Rapid diagnostic testing led to a presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis.
In case people didn’t know, we usually have a handful of cases of the plague every year. This isn’t news.
Judging by these comments, people clearly didn’t know.
If it’s a handful then each one is at least moderately news worthy in normal times
With the new brain worm onncharge of healthcare timea that we’re in, I see this as a screaming emergency news
The Bubonic plague is easily treated with a round of antibiotics. Very rarely does someone die. This person waited too long.