MMWR report links Arizona man's 2025 pneumonic plague death to sick cats (🇺🇸) United States

• Confirmed MMWR report linked an Arizona man's pneumonic plague death to contact with sick cats. per MMWR¹ 1
• CDC (🇺🇸) said the US averages five human plague cases a year, mostly in Arizona and New Mexico.¹ 1
  • CDC (🇺🇸) gave zero US plague cases in 2022 and 16 in 2015.¹ 1
• A 2015 CDC (🇺🇸) study gave 74 pneumonic plague cases between 1900 and 2012. per CDC (🇺🇸)¹ 1
• Two US plague cases in recent years involved patients exposed to sick cats. per MMWR¹ 1
• Clinical Infectious Diseases (🇺🇸) paper reported 23 cat-associated human plague cases in eight states, 1977 to 1998. per Clinical Infectious Diseases (🇺🇸)
  • Five of the 23 cat-associated cases were primary pneumonic plague.

The reports (1)

• US man who died from pneumonic plague had contact with sick catshealio.com (🇺🇸) · 14 Oct, 00:00