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The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado.
It wasn't until she had a seizure that her father knew something was seriously wrong and rushed her to a hospital in their town of Pagosa Springs. She had a 107-degree fever, and doctors were baffled by the cause.
"I didn't know what was going on. I just reacted," Sean Downing said. "I thought she died."
The Downings eventually learned their daughter was ill with one of the last things they would've thought: bubonic plague, a disease that wiped out one-third of Europe in the 14th century but is now exceedingly rare
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/05/colorado-girl-recovering-from-bubonic-plague/#ixzz25h8ipv3E
We are certainly having a rash of rare and even new diseases pop up in our country as of late.
It wasn't until she had a seizure that her father knew something was seriously wrong and rushed her to a hospital in their town of Pagosa Springs. She had a 107-degree fever, and doctors were baffled by the cause.
"I didn't know what was going on. I just reacted," Sean Downing said. "I thought she died."
The Downings eventually learned their daughter was ill with one of the last things they would've thought: bubonic plague, a disease that wiped out one-third of Europe in the 14th century but is now exceedingly rare
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/05/colorado-girl-recovering-from-bubonic-plague/#ixzz25h8ipv3E
We are certainly having a rash of rare and even new diseases pop up in our country as of late.