A New Mexico man has died of septimic plague, a cousin of the bubonic plague, the infectious disease that is estimated to have killed a third of the population of Europe in the Middle Ages.
As CNN reported, authorities aren’t identifying the man, saying only that he was in his 20s and that he was from Rio Arriba County. He had been in the hospital at the time of his death, according to KOB-TV. Authorities will investigate the man’s home in order to calculate how much risk is posed to his surviving family members.
This marks the second case of plague in New Mexico this year, and the first fatal one in the state since 2015. The other 2020 case involves a Santa Fe County man in his 60s who contracted bubonic plague and is recovering.
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