An Oregon resident has been infected with the state’s first case of bubonic plague since 2015, health officials said last week. The bubonic plague can progress into the more severe and difficult to treat septicemic plague (bloodstream infection) and/or pneumonic plague (lung infection) if not diagnosed early. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APPThe last case of human plague in Oregon was reported in 2015, according to Oregon Health Authority. A mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria, the cause of bubonic plague, as seen in the foregut of a flea vector. Original article source: Oregon health officials confirm first human bubonic plague case since 2015

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