Expect the panic to begin soon, assuming there's a break in the media coverage of the US elections.
It's the fourth death in the USA (as far as is known) this year, out of fifteen notified cases so far, a spike in the recent annual average (seven per year). However four deaths is unusual, there have only been eight deaths from y. pestis since 2000.
The disease is still endemic to large tracts of the US west and south west with a natural reservoir in mammals such as prairie dogs and other rodents.
Guardian story.
It's the fourth death in the USA (as far as is known) this year, out of fifteen notified cases so far, a spike in the recent annual average (seven per year). However four deaths is unusual, there have only been eight deaths from y. pestis since 2000.
The disease is still endemic to large tracts of the US west and south west with a natural reservoir in mammals such as prairie dogs and other rodents.
Guardian story.
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