More than 1,000 confirmed or probable human plague cases occurred in the U. S. between the disease’s arrival here in 1900 and 2012. This year, the state of Georgia had its first recorded case — an 18-year-old girl from Thomasville.
Hannah Lundquist, a sophomore at Valdosta State University, probably contracted the bubonic plague after she was bitten by a flea during a hiking trip in Yosemite National Park in California. According to Georgia Health News, she is recovering at home now, following a week in a Thomasville hospital and will be taking a semester off from school to continue her recovery.
Benjamin Haynes, public affairs official for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, says since April 1, a total of 11 cases of human plague have been reported in residents of six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, New Mexico and Oregon. The cases in Georgia and California residents have been linked to exposures at or near Yosemite National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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