Plague

New York cases test health system

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 15th, 2002

Two cases of plague at a New York City hospital turned out not to be bioterrorism, but they provided an opportunity to test how the city health system would handle an intentional attack.

The good news: Doctors say the system worked.

Hospital staff and health officials applied lessons from last year's anthrax attacks to diagnose and treat the two patients quickly - and to prevent unnecessary public fear over the obscure disease.

The bubonic plague cases, diagnosed in a New Mexico couple who showed up at Beth Israel Medical Center on November 5, 2002, were the first in New York City in at least a century.

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