‘Fortunate to be alive’: Girl, 7, contracts bubonic plague at Colorado campground
(Photo: Jack Dempsey / AP)
DENVER — A seven-year-old girl is recovering at a Denver hospital from a rare case of bubonic plague she likely contracted from fleas feeding on a dead squirrel at a southwestern Colorado campground, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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