Plague Infects Woman Visiting Colorado ‘It’s Been Here For Decades’

DENVER (CBS4)– A woman visiting Colorado last month became infected with the bubonic plague, the latest in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is an unusually high number of human cases in the U.S.
The woman, from Michigan, was in Salida for the Gentlemen of the Road music festival the weekend of Aug. 21.
“That individual did have travel history to Colorado within the incubation period,” said Dr. Jennifer House with the Colorado Department of Environmental