{"id":10436,"date":"2025-09-30T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:19:47","slug":"officials-warn-of-an-unprecedented-risk-of-the-plague-in-us-travel-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/30\/officials-warn-of-an-unprecedented-risk-of-the-plague-in-us-travel-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn of an &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; risk of the plague in US travel hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15148377\/Officials-warn-unprecedented-risk-plague-US-travel-hotspots.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> Travelers in the US are being warned about an &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; risk of the plague as rodent numbers explode across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, researchers at the&nbsp;University of Richmond blamed rising temperatures and urbanization for an increase in infestations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at cities around the world, they found the US saw some of the highest upticks in rodent populations, with&nbsp;Washington the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, Toronto and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new_york\/index.html\">New York City<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail Travelers in the US are being warned about an &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; risk of the plague as rodent numbers explode across the country.&nbsp; Earlier this year, researchers at the&nbsp;University of Richmond blamed rising temperatures and urbanization for an increase in infestations.&nbsp; Looking at cities around the world, they found the US saw some of the [&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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plague"],"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\/10436","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=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}