{"id":9961,"date":"2025-07-23T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:34:53","slug":"man-catches-plague-from-his-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/man-catches-plague-from-his-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Catches Plague From His Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/generalinfectiousdisease\/116640\">MedPageToday<\/a> Case occurred outside the typical season, suggesting the influence of a changing climate. In a rare, off-season occurrence, a man in Oregon contracted plague from his infected cat, researchers reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case occurred in January 2024, earlier in the year than all of the other 18 cases of plague reported in Oregon in the past 90 years, Emilio DeBess, DVM, of the Oregon Health Authority, and colleagues reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/74\/wr\/mm7426a2.htm?s_cid=mm7426a2_w#contribAff\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"in\u00a0Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in\u00a0<em>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases typically occur from May to August, DeBess and colleagues noted, suggesting that changes in climate may alter patterns of&nbsp;<em>Yersinia pestis<\/em>&nbsp;infections. These changes &#8220;could potentially cause not only more cases of plague, but an extended season,&#8221; DeBess told&nbsp;<em>MedPage Today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Case occurred outside the typical season, suggesting the influence of a changing climate. In a rare, off-season occurrence, a man in Oregon contracted plague from his infected cat, researchers reported. The case occurred in January 2024, earlier in the year than all of the other 18 cases of plague reported in Oregon in 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":[6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9961","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\/9961","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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}