Health officials say that Arizona resident dies from the plague

An Arizona resident died due to the pulmonary plague, and health officials confirmed on Friday.

This has been the first registered death of the disease in the province since 2007, according to the services of Konkunino District of Health and Human. In this case, the person had an interaction with a dead animal with the disease.

The plague, known as “Black Death” in the fourteenth century, killed up to half of the population of Europe. It is now rare in humans and can be treated with antibiotics.

The centers of diseases control and prevention are on average between seven cases of human plague every year in the United States.

The Coconino Province government said the public’s risk of exposure was still low.

“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the deceased,” Patrice Horstmann, Chairman of the Cokonino Province, said in a statement. “We keep them in our ideas during this difficult time. As a respect for the family, additional information will not be launched about death.”

Pulmonary Is a severe lung infection? The result of Yersinia Pestis.

There are different forms of plague, such as turbulent plague, which is the most common and caused by the affected fleas bite. The pulmonary plague, which spreads to the lungs of other forms of uneducated plague, is the most dangerous and is usually rare.

Symptoms of bell plague in humans usually appear within two days to eight days after exposure, and it may include fever, colds, headache, weakness and lymph nodes swollen.

The plague is no longer present in the UK and the opportunity to happen in a person returning to the country “very low”, the government He says.

Prevention measures include the use of Deet -based insects to protect against fleas, avoid contact with dead animals, tissues or infected substances, and avoid close contact with patients with symptoms and crowded areas where cases were reported recently.