*** N.M. woman contracts bubonic plague

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Debra Welsh is feeling better, thank you, considering her brush with bubonic plague. And she's learned a lesson: Don't touch wobbly mice. "Those little drunken, wobbly mice would get into the house and you could get right up to them and pick them up by their tails and drop them in the toilet," she said Tuesday. "And they would die real fast. We found six of them over the past six months," Welsh said from her St. Joseph Hospital bed. Welsh, 43, who lives just north of Albuquerque, was confirmed late Monday as suffering from the disease - the first human plague case of the year in New Mexico.

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