{"id":6979,"date":"2024-07-09T19:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6979"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:46:12","slug":"colorado-public-health-officials-confirm-first-human-plague-case-in-pueblo-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/09\/colorado-public-health-officials-confirm-first-human-plague-case-in-pueblo-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado: Public Health Officials Confirm First Human Plague Case in Pueblo County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/county.pueblo.org\/public-health-department\/public-health-officials-confirm-first-human-plague-case-pueblo-county\">Colorado Department of Public Health<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment, in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, has confirmed a human case of plague in a Pueblo County resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PDPHE continues to investigate a potential source and asks the public to take the precautions listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eliminate places that rodents can hide and breed around your home, garage, shed or recreation area.\u00a0 Remove brush, rock piles, trash, and piles of lumber.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid contact with dead animals. If you must handle sick or dead animals follow these guidelines. First, put on an insect repellant to protect yourself from fleas. Then use a long-handled shovel to place it in a garbage bag. Lastly, place the bag in an outdoor garbage can.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use insect repellent that contains 20%-30% DEET to prevent flea bites. Treat pants, socks, shoe tops, arms, and legs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not let pets sleep in bed with you.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treat dogs and cats for fleas regularly. Flea collars have not been proven effective.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not allow pets to hunt or roam in rodent areas, such as prairie dog colonies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep pet food in rodent-proof containers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"l NPwMLvXjSvP Wb\">l NPwMLvXjSvP Wb<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Department of Public Health The Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment, in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, has confirmed a human case of plague in a Pueblo County resident. PDPHE continues to investigate a potential source and asks the public to take the precautions listed below:<\/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":[7,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","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\/6979","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=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}