{"id":9892,"date":"2025-07-16T10:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:59:30","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-the-plague-after-an-arizona-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/16\/what-you-should-know-about-the-plague-after-an-arizona-death\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Know About the Plague After an Arizona Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-07-16\/what-to-know-about-pneumonic-plague-after-arizona-death?embedded-checkout=true\">Bloomberg<\/a> Last week, local health authorities in northern Arizona confirmed a person\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coconino.az.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/68648\/071125-Plague-Death-Confirmed-in-Coconino-County?bidId=\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"died of the plague, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died of the plague<\/a>. It\u2019s the county\u2019s first death from pneumonic plague, a type of bacteria that infects the lungs, since 2007. There\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about the victim, like the person\u2019s age and gender, how the disease was contracted or what symptoms were displayed. But the person was diagnosed with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/plague\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Yersinia pestis, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Yersinia pestis<\/em><\/a>\u00a0bacterium, which can be transmitted to humans through infected flea bites or interaction with an infected animal, according to local health officials. The Arizona death comes months after actor Gene Hackman\u2019s wife Betsy Arakawa&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/betsy-arakawa-autopsy-gene-hackman-death-investigation-967a4a097cadb22a36c8c10824639d7a\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"died, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died<\/a>&nbsp;of hantavirus in New Mexico \u2013 a disease transmitted by rodents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The headlines may make you wonder whether you could be susceptible to an infection. The good news: Any type of plague is extremely rare. Still, it\u2019s good to know the signs and what carries the disease to keep yourself protected from the medieval scourge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-07-16\/what-to-know-about-pneumonic-plague-after-arizona-death?embedded-checkout=true\">Continue reading<br><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Last week, local health authorities in northern Arizona confirmed a person\u00a0died of the plague. It\u2019s the county\u2019s first death from pneumonic plague, a type of bacteria that infects the lungs, since 2007. There\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about the victim, like the person\u2019s age and gender, how the disease was contracted or [&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":[6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/9892","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=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}