27 August 2008
Order of the Arrow Plague
Posted by admin under: community service; safety .
Seriously. The bubonic plague. Chrisopher Keating at the Hartford Courant relates the story that a group of Arrowmen who attended ArrowCorp5 at the Bridger-Teton National Forest were exposed and one caught the actual plague.
The scout spent about a week in the hospital this month, said Louis Salute, scout executive of the Milford-based Connecticut Yankee Council. The scout and his parents are declining interviews, Salute said.
“It appears the boy was bitten by a flea,” Salute said Tuesday. “He came back here and got ill. He was running a pretty high fever.”
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The Wyoming and Connecticut health departments are investigating the incident, along with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Neither state health department would release the boy’s name. The case represented only the sixth in Wyoming since 1978 and the first since 2004, said Kim Deti, a spokeswoman for the Wyoming health department.
Why the fleas in Wyoming are bouncing around with the bubonic plague isn’t known. Just be careful on your next trip to Yellowstone.
Update: Scout has recovered fully with the help of the antibiotic Cipro.
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