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First dog-to-human transmission of plague identified in the US

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that a small outbreak of pneumonic plague in Colorado last year was caused by a dog infected with the disease. The organization says this is first ever incidence of a human contracting the disease from a dog in the US, and it may be the first case of human-to-human plague transmission in the country in almost a century.
More here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/293383.php

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