First-ever bubonic plague case confirmed in Michigan, officials say no cause for alarm

A Michigan resident has contracted the rare, life-threatening bubonic plague – the first documented case in Michigan’s public health history, state officials have confirmed.


A Marquette county resident is believed to have contracted the flea-borne illness during a trip to Colorado, and officials are reassuring the public there is no cause for alarm. The person is recovering after receiving appropriate treatment, and his or her form of the plague never developed into the more contagious pneumonic plague. It’s the pneumonic plague – not the bubonic plague that the Michigan resident contracted – that’s passed between humans, infecting the lungs and causing a rapidly developing pneumonia which can lead to respiratory failure and shock, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.



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