Published Date: 2012-08-28 21:12:30
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Plague - USA (04): (CO) septicemic
Archive Number: 20120828.1269118
PLAGUE - USA (04): (COLORADO) SEPTICEMIC
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Date: Tues 28 Aug 2012
From: Amber Reiss-Holt MD [edited]
A 7-year-old girl, a resident of Archuleta County, CO, presented to a small community emergency room (ER) with a fever of 107 F and seizures on the evening of 24 Aug 2012. She was transported to a pediatric ICU in Denver, where she deteriorated into severe septic shock. Further history revealed that she was playing with a dead skunk near her home some days before the onset of fever, and that she received multiple flea bites from fleas on the skunk carcass. Blood cultures have confirmed _Yersinia pestis_ and clinically she has septicemic plague. She remains in critical condition.
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Communicated by:
Amber Reiss-Holt MD
Chief of Emergency Services and General Surgeon
Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Springs CO
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Plague - USA (04): (CO) septicemic
Archive Number: 20120828.1269118
PLAGUE - USA (04): (COLORADO) SEPTICEMIC
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A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: Tues 28 Aug 2012
From: Amber Reiss-Holt MD [edited]
A 7-year-old girl, a resident of Archuleta County, CO, presented to a small community emergency room (ER) with a fever of 107 F and seizures on the evening of 24 Aug 2012. She was transported to a pediatric ICU in Denver, where she deteriorated into severe septic shock. Further history revealed that she was playing with a dead skunk near her home some days before the onset of fever, and that she received multiple flea bites from fleas on the skunk carcass. Blood cultures have confirmed _Yersinia pestis_ and clinically she has septicemic plague. She remains in critical condition.
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Communicated by:
Amber Reiss-Holt MD
Chief of Emergency Services and General Surgeon
Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Springs CO