Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2012)

Changing Socioeconomic Indicators of Human Plague, New Mexico, USA

  • Anna M. Schotthoefer,
  • Rebecca J. Eisen,
  • Kiersten J. Kugeler,
  • Paul Ettestad,
  • Pamela J. Reynolds,
  • Ted Brown,
  • Russell E. Enscore,
  • James Cheek,
  • Rudy Bueno,
  • Joseph Targhetta,
  • John A. Montenieri,
  • Kenneth L. Gage

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1807.120121
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 7
pp. 1151 – 1154

Abstract

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Socioeconomic indicators associated with temporal changes in the distribution of human plague cases in New Mexico were investigated for 1976–2007. In the 1980s, cases were more likely in census block groups with poor housing conditions, but by the 2000s, cases were associated with affluent areas concentrated in the Santa Fe–Albuquerque region.

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