10-year old dies from the plague in Colorado - The Independent

A 10-year-old girl from Colorado has died after contracting the plague.

Her death is the first to be attributed to the plague in Colorado since 2015.

Four people died of the plague in 2015, with half of that number coming from Colorado.

Between 2005 and 2021, there were nearly 570 cases of animals infected with the plague in Colorado, including 104 cats and dogs.

The majority of US plague cases are in the rural West, specifically Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

Fleas transmit plague bacteria to humans.