A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, positive god of a highly infectious disease known as “Black fish” during the Middle Ages, the state’s first recorded case in five years, health officials said Tuesday.
Health authorities El Dorado County They said in a statement that they suspected the person was bitten by a flea infected with the plague. while walking his dog in the Tahoe Keys area or along the Truckee River corridor in east-central California. His investigation is still ongoing.
- Signs were distributed around South Lake Tahoe warning of the pest and how to prevent exposure.
It is important for people to take precautions for both themselves and their pets when they are outdoors, especially when walking, hiking, or camping in areas where there are wild rodents.
“Human cases of plague are extremely rare but can be very serious.”
Nancy Williams, El Dorado County Public Health Officer
California resident you are under professional medical care and is recovering at home, health officials said.
The fish
The plague, which has three variants, including bubonic, is a highly infectious disease since
It is also called simply “Fish” and it is an infectious, life-threatening disease, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, that lives in animals, especially rodents, and more specifically in fleas that carry these on their fur.
Its name comes precisely from the symptoms it causes: a painful swelling of the lymph node, which affects tissues in the armpit or groin, forming a kind of blister known as a “bubo”.
From 2010 to 2015, 3,248 cases were presented in the world, which resulted in 584 deaths.
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