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3 People Have Caught Plague in New Mexico This Month

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Three people in New Mexico have been infected with plague this month, which is close to the number of plague cases that the state saw in all of 2016, according to health officials.

This week, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reported two cases of plague — one in a 52-year-old woman and one in a 62-year-old woman, both living in Santa Fe County, in the northern part of the state. Earlier in June, the state reported a case of plague in a 63-year-old man, also living in Santa Fe County. All three people were hospitalized, but all of them survived, NMDOH officials said.

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Fleas that bite rodents infected with the bacteria that cause the plague can transmit the disease to people.

Credit: Janice Haney Carr/CDC

 

TISA building construction displaces prairie dogs

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Over the roar of giant construction engines, small chirps made by frantic prairie dogs can still be heard in a freshly plowed field once dotted with the small piles of dirt marking the homes of the desert-dwelling rodents.

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Learning More About The Abilene Prairie Dog Town

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ABILENE, Texas (KTAB) – The Red Bud Park prairie dog town has been around since the 1970s. Although there’s nobody left on the Abilene city staff who was part of the original “founding” of the prairie dog town, the town has thrived in the years since it was established.

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