Plague -- Peru
A 42-year-old man died from bubonic plague in the Lambayeque [Peru] region. He had contracted the disease in the Salas district, as confirmed by the Regional Health Management.
The head of Epidemiology, Dafne Moreno Paico, indicated that the Peruvian citizen likely acquired the disease by the bite of a flea infected with the bacterium _Yersinia pestis_ in the Moistures Alto de Salas sector on [Fri 29 Jun 2018]. Moreno noted that the patient, who had been living in the USA for 7 years, was
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