Rhino
06-02-2006, 08:20 AM
Woman Dead, Man Hospitalized With Plague in New Mexico
Thursday, June 01, 2006
SANTA FE — A Santa Fe County man is the second person to contract the plague in New Mexico this year, the state Department of Health says.
The unidentified man was hospitalized Wednesday in critical but stable condition, said Deborah Busemeyer, department spokeswoman.
The man was suffering from the septicemic form of the disease in which the plague bacteria multiply in the bloodstream.
The department confirmed last Friday that a Bernalillo County woman died the previous week of the septicemic form of the plague. She was the first person to die from plague in New Mexico in a dozen years.
Plague generally is transmitted to people by the bites of infected fleas, but also can be transmitted by direct contact with infected animals — rodents, wildlife and pets........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197839,00.html
Thursday, June 01, 2006
SANTA FE — A Santa Fe County man is the second person to contract the plague in New Mexico this year, the state Department of Health says.
The unidentified man was hospitalized Wednesday in critical but stable condition, said Deborah Busemeyer, department spokeswoman.
The man was suffering from the septicemic form of the disease in which the plague bacteria multiply in the bloodstream.
The department confirmed last Friday that a Bernalillo County woman died the previous week of the septicemic form of the plague. She was the first person to die from plague in New Mexico in a dozen years.
Plague generally is transmitted to people by the bites of infected fleas, but also can be transmitted by direct contact with infected animals — rodents, wildlife and pets........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197839,00.html