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http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/01/health/pit-bull-plague/
A pit bull was at the heart of a rare plague outbreak in Colorado that left four people sick last year. That's what a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation found in a new report released April 30.
In last summer's incident, what stands out is the possible human-to-human transmission, according to the investigation. That hasn't happened in the United States since 1924. Earlier studies have shown that pneumonic plague, even its most severe form, can be transmitted person-to-person, but it is rare. And the dog-to-human transmission was unexpected according to the local health department. The team that investigated the case said that they could only find one other case of dog to human transmission in the medical literature. That was a 2009 case in China.
"There is no evidence this is a mutated strain or anything," said Dr. John Douglas, director of Colorado's Tri-County Health Department. "It is rare, and we don't know if it has simply been missed before or if it something about this particular breed of dog. We haven't been able to determine that."