Health officials in Central Oregon have confirmed a case of human bubonic ... Symptoms of plague usually begin in humans "two to eight days after exposure to an infected animal or flea," the ...

Plague affects humans and nonhuman animals. Septicemic and bubonic plague symptoms develop after bacteria pass from a flea or other animal into a person’s body through a break in the skin ...

Anyone with these symptoms should seek immediate medical treatment if they have been exposed to an animal, generally a rodent or flea, Susky advised. “Bubonic plague is a serious infectious ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic ... Plague occurs when infected fleas bite people, or when humans touch or skin an infected animal.

A domestic animal in Larimer County’s Red Feather Lakes area has tested positive for the bubonic plague, health officials announced Thursday. The Larimer County Department of Health and ...