{"id":10374,"date":"2025-09-24T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:20:45","slug":"plague-suspected-in-southern-colorado-county-following-mass-prairie-dog-die-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/plague-suspected-in-southern-colorado-county-following-mass-prairie-dog-die-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Plague suspected in southern Colorado county following mass prairie dog die-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kktv.com\/2025\/09\/23\/plague-suspected-southern-colorado-county-following-mass-prairie-dog-die-off\/\">Colorado News<\/a> A mass die-off of prairie dogs in a Colorado county has health officials concerned that it could be the plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>La Plata County Public Health Department (LPCPH) announced Monday that it was investigating several once-active prairie dog colonies where there was now little to no activity detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While for many, the word \u201cplague\u201d conjures up images of plague doctors and the \u201cBring Out Your Dead\u201d scene from \u201cMonty Python and the Holy Grail,\u201d the scourge of 14th century Europe remains alive and thriving in 21st century America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But unlike the time of the Black Death, in modern times the plague is highly manageable if caught and treated early.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"rH  Rqg Wpi eqdvghoULOYpUwAA\">rH  Rqg Wpi eqdvghoULOYpUwAA<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado News A mass die-off of prairie dogs in a Colorado county has health officials concerned that it could be the plague. La Plata County Public Health Department (LPCPH) announced Monday that it was investigating several once-active prairie dog colonies where there was now little to no activity detected. While for many, the word \u201cplague\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zoonotic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}