COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – The Colorado Division of Public Properly being and Ambiance (CDPHE) despatched out data on Friday about plague activity being display within the order.
As of Friday, there were no longer lower than two confirmed human instances of the plague this summer. Potentially the most in kind case modified into once reported to the order health division on Thursday for a resident from a rural county. The right county modified into once no longer shared within the liberate, but this article will be up up to now if the division is in a station to share that data. The first case modified into once identified earlier this summer in a resident from southwest Colorado.
In each and each confirmed instances, the of us had exposure to unwell animals. One person modified into once uncovered to a squirrel and the different person modified into once uncovered to a cat.
Click here to learn extra from CDPHE on plague.
From CDPHE:
“Plague is most commonly unfold to of us by the bite of an contaminated flea but also would possibly perchance be transmitted by contaminated animal tissues, fluids, or respiratory droplets. Infected fleas would possibly perchance be found out advance areas the place a pair of rodents or rabbits occupy died – heading off these areas and never allowing pets or other animals to locate these areas will decrease the likelihood of getting plague. Voters with insist exposure to fleas or vegetation and fauna within the affected areas would possibly perchance be in threat. Of us that judge they’ve been uncovered must contact a health care provider without delay. Symptoms contain surprising fever, headache, chills, weakness, and gentle, painful lymph nodes. Whereas there must no longer any publically readily accessible vaccines to cease plague in of us, if caught early, it will also be efficiently treated with antibiotics in each and each of us and pets.”
The order health division incorporated some precautions the general public can remove to present protection to themselves and their pets:
-Elevate out no longer straight deal with any vegetation and fauna.
-Sustain pets a ways from vegetation and fauna, particularly dumb rodents and rabbits.
-Don’t let canines or cats hunt prairie canines, squirrels, voles, other rodents, or rabbits.
-Don’t allow pets to tear freely.
-Treat all pets for fleas in line with a veterinarian’s recommendation.
-If your pet develops a surprising illness after contact with vegetation and fauna name a veterinarian without delay.
-Elevate out no longer feed vegetation and fauna — this attracts them to your home, brings them in shut contact, and will increase the likelihood of disease transmission.
-Elevate out no longer are trying to remove away or assassinate prairie canines. This would also lengthen the likelihood of plague for you and your home animals.
-Be attentive to rodent and rabbit populations on your jam, and chronicle surprising die-offs or a pair of dumb animals to your native health division.
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