MARQUETTE (WKZO-AM) — A teacher from Marquette has gone public with her story about contracting Bubonic plague during a hiking trip in Colorado.
Alisha Plescher, 33, said she’s still having difficulty standing up, but is slowly recovering. She also called her recovery from the illness “a little surreal.”
Health officials said the so-called “black death” isn’t the scourge it used to be, thanks to modern antibiotics.
Jennifer Smith with the Michigan Department of Public Health says, for one thing, they now have shots to cure the disease. Plescher has responded to the treatment.
“She’s expected to make a full recovery,” Smith said.
Smith aid the only way anyone gets the plague the way Plescher got it is by traveling to remote outdoor areas in the American west. She also said the plague cannot easily be transmitted human-to-human.
– John McNeill
