{"id":182563,"date":"2024-02-12T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/oregon-confirmed-a-human-case-of-the-bubonic-plague-it-was-likely-caused-by-a-cat"},"modified":"2024-02-12T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:22:26","slug":"oregon-confirmed-a-human-case-of-the-bubonic-plague-it-was-likely-caused-by-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/oregon-confirmed-a-human-case-of-the-bubonic-plague-it-was-likely-caused-by-a-cat","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Confirmed a Human Case of the Bubonic Plague. It Was Likely Caused By a Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oregon-confirmed-a-human-case-of-the-bubonic-plague-it-was-likely-caused-by-a-cat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A case of the bubonic plague has hit Oregon, and the likely cause was a cat.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials in Deschutes County announced last week that a resident, who has not been identified, had been diagnosed with the plague, in the state\u2019s first human case in eight years. The individual was likely infected by their cat, the department says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll close contacts of the resident and their pet have been contacted and provided medication to prevent illness,\u201d said Dr. Richard Fawcett, the Deschutes County Health Services Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of the bubonic plague has hit Oregon, and the likely cause was a cat. Health officials in Deschutes County announced last week that a resident, who has not been identified, had been diagnosed with the plague, in the state\u2019s first human case in eight years. The individual was likely infected by their cat, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}