{"id":11826,"date":"2026-04-08T17:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11826"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:53:59","slug":"arozona-apache-county-confirms-first-plague-case-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/08\/arozona-apache-county-confirms-first-plague-case-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Arozona: Apache County confirms first plague case since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/08\/apache-county-confirms-first-plague-case-since-2015\/\">AZ Family<\/a> Apache County health officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/08\/apache-county-confirms-first-plague-case-since-2015\/facebook.com\/ApacheCountyPublicHealth\/posts\/pfbid0SFP2UNFrnmgmewBEt1yR1qitE8tP234iFeE78VQe32ByBapovT78zE3qs8azAx8bl?rdid=JMx4dcDSrtRve8Xr&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fp%2F1B57oDnNNG%2F#\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"announced a confirmed case of plague, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced a confirmed case of plague<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say the person has recovered after receiving treatment. It\u2019s the first confirmed case in Apache County since 2015 and only the fourth since 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public health workers are assessing environmental risks and ensuring the appropriate safety measures are in place. Officials say the risk to the general public remains low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2026\/04\/08\/apache-county-confirms-first-plague-case-since-2015\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZ Family Apache County health officials&nbsp;announced a confirmed case of plague&nbsp;Tuesday. Officials say the person has recovered after receiving treatment. It\u2019s the first confirmed case in Apache County since 2015 and only the fourth since 2006. Public health workers are assessing environmental risks and ensuring the appropriate safety measures are in place. Officials say 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-11826","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\/11826","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=11826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11826\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}