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The adult resident of Marquette County in the state's Upper
Peninsula recently returned from a Colorado area with reported
plague activity and there is no cause for concern about
human-to-human contact, the state health department said.
It was the 14th human plague case reported nationally in 2015, more
than four times the average of three cases annually of the rare and
potentially life-threatening flea-borne illness, state health
officials said.
An elderly Utah resident died from plague in August and two people
have succumbed to the disease this year in Colorado.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the plague
was introduced to the United States in 1900 by rat–infested
steamships that had sailed from affected areas, mostly in Asia.
Early symptoms of plague include high fever, chills, nausea,
weakness and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit or groin.
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(Reporting by David Bailey in Minneapolis; Editing by Eric Beech)
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