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US - Colorado: Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel

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Published Date: 2012-08-28 21:12:30
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Plague - USA (04): (CO) septicemic
Archive Number: 20120828.1269118

PLAGUE - USA (04): (COLORADO) SEPTICEMIC
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Date: Tues 28 Aug 2012
From: Amber Reiss-Holt MD [edited]


A 7-year-old girl, a resident of Archuleta County, CO, presented to a small community emergency room (ER) with a fever of 107 F and seizures on the evening of 24 Aug 2012. She was transported to a pediatric ICU in Denver, where she deteriorated into severe septic shock. Further history revealed that she was playing with a dead skunk near her home some days before the onset of fever, and that she received multiple flea bites from fleas on the skunk carcass. Blood cultures have confirmed _Yersinia pestis_ and clinically she has septicemic plague. She remains in critical condition.

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Amber Reiss-Holt MD
Chief of Emergency Services and General Surgeon
Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Springs CO
 
US - Colorado: Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel

6 September 2012

Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel

A seven-year-old girl in Colorado is recovering from bubonic plague, the illness that caused the Black Death and wiped out up to 60% of Europe's population in the 14th century.

Sierra Jane Downing became ill after trying to bury a dead squirrel while on a camping trip with her family in Colorado.

She developed a 107 F (41.67 C) fever and had a seizure, prompting her frightened father to rush her to a hospital where she was stabilised before being flown to Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.

Dr Jennifer Snow, the paediatrician who treated Sierra, said the child's unusual symptoms were puzzling.

Read more: Sky News

See also: California - Three ground squirrels trapped on Palomar Mountain test positive for plague
 
Re: US - Colorado: Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel

There's a video at the link and the little patient looks amazingly well already. :) She was fortunate to have doctors who quickly identified the infection, unlike that poor man in Oregon.
 
Re: US - Colorado: Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel

I have merged the two threads above as it appears they are the same case.
 
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