{"id":6043,"date":"2024-03-12T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:14:02","slug":"new-mexico-man-dies-of-plague-in-states-1st-fatality-since-2020-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/12\/new-mexico-man-dies-of-plague-in-states-1st-fatality-since-2020-health-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico man dies of plague in state&#8217;s 1st fatality since 2020: Health officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/new-mexico-man-dies-plague-states-1st-fatality\/story?id=108040818\">ABC News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A New Mexico man has died from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/pet-owner-bubonic-plague-cat-oregon\/story?id=107193625\">plague<\/a>&nbsp;in the state&#8217;s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man lived in Lincoln County &#8212; located in the southeastern part of the state &#8212; and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmhealth.org\/news\/information\/2024\/3\/?view=2071\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other identifying information about the man was available, including his name, age or race\/ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plague is treatable with commonly available antibiotics and the odds of full recovery are higher if a patient seeks medical care early, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/plague\/diagnosis\/index.html\">CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News A New Mexico man has died from&nbsp;plague&nbsp;in the state&#8217;s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials. The man lived in Lincoln County &#8212; located in the southeastern part of the state &#8212; and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a&nbsp;press release&nbsp;last week. [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/6043","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=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}