... Case of Plague For Year Is Reported By Journal Staff Report A 50-year-old hunter from Eddy County contracted the state's first reported case of bubonic plague in 2008, the state Department of Health said Friday. The case is also the first ever to be reported by an Eddy County resident, officials ... full story 01/25/08
... the flu, but an astute doctor used to dealing with visitors' exotic diseases from around the globe determined that Tull and Marker had contracted bubonic plague - the first cases of plague in The Big Apple in more than a century. Marker recovered quickly after the two were admitted Nov. 5, 2002 ... full story 11/08/07
... TV A Discovery Channel TV series airing Friday called "Life or Death" is scheduled to portray the story of an Eldorado couple who contracted the bubonic plague near their home and ended up being admitted to a New York City hospital five years ago. John Tull and Lucinda Marker were on a trip ... full story 11/07/07
... population in the mid- to late 1500s after the Spanish conquest. Historians disagree whether it was smallpox, typhus, hemorrhagic fever or even bubonic plague. Many other Spanish-speaking cultures feature a similar monster, often called el cucuy or el coco. New Mexican author Rudolfo Anaya is ... full story 10/17/07
Saturday, September 29, 2007 Plague Case In East Mountains Journal Staff Report A 58-year-old East Mountain woman has been hospitalized with bubonic plague - the state's fifth case of human plague this year, state health officials confirmed Friday. A 3-year-old Bernalillo County boy died ... full story 09/29/07
... fact that New Mexico has had more plague over the last quarter century than anywhere else. Plague comes in three varieties, the most common being "bubonic plague," referring to the fact that these patients have large, pus-filled "buboes," or infected lymph nodes, usually in the groin or armpit. More ... full story 07/22/07
... shake their booty to reproduce, filling his yard with quiet snakes. The good news is that snakes eat rodents, a common cause of hantavirus and bubonic plague, diseases more likely to kill you than a snakebite. Most of Myers' snakes were born in captivity and can adapt to life in a museum. If ... full story 06/17/07
... of Bernalillo County Emergency Medical Services. A blood culture took about 10 days for the cause of death to be positively identified as bubonic plague because the single dose of antibiotics had interfered with the bacteria, DiMenna said. Undetermined origin While at the scene of the boy ... full story 06/14/07
... . Of the four statewide plague cases this year, there has been one fatality - a young boy from Bernalillo County died on Memorial Day and bubonic plague was identified about 10 days later as the cause of the boy's death. The first case occurred in late April in a San Juan County man who recovered ... full story 06/14/07
... Busemeyer said. Out of the four statewide cases this year, there has been one fatality - a young boy from Bernalillo County recently died of bubonic plague. The first case occurred in late April in a San Juan County man who recovered, and a woman from Torrance County is still hospitalized ... full story 06/12/07
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