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The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident.
The plague sounds like a distant threat, but a small number of serious cases of the disease occur every year. Experts explain ...
The plague—aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence—is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake ...
A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has been diagnosed with the plague, the state’s first human plague infection since 2020.
A California resident went camping in South Lake Tahoe and tested positive for a plague after a suspected infected flea bite, ...
Health officials in the Sierra Nevada region of California announced this week that a local resident tested positive for ...
A California resident is being treated for plague as health officials raise awareness about the illness carried by fleas.
A resident of South Lake Tahoe has tested positive for the plague, El Dorado County health officials confirmed Tuesday, ...
A person in California recently tested positive for plague, according to El Dorado County health officials. The individual ...
A South Lake Tahoe resident tested positive for the bubonic plague and is believed to have been bitten by an infected flea ...
Plague is a “potentially life-threatening disease” caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, according to the U.S. Centers for ...
Public health officials said the person may have been bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area.