A New Mexico man has died from the bubonic plague. Is this America’s Black Death?
One month after a man in Oregon contracted the bubonic plague from his sick cat, a different man has died from the disease after falling ill in New Mexico.
Around three years after New Mexico’s last case of the plague, officials confirmed in early March that a man from Lincoln County passed away after being hospitalised for the disease.
It is not clear how the individual contracted the plague – though the state health agency is urging residents to take care to avoid exposure to rodents.
Health officials said
