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Oregon health officials confirm first human bubonic plague case since 2015
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| 2/11/24
| Stephen Sorace
Posted on 02/11/2024 4:31:19 PM PST by Libloather
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Say, where did that chicom biolab move to?
To: Libloather
It’s moving in from across the border.
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:33:53 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: Libloather
When a people decides to live in filth, diseases will follow.
To: Libloather
8 years is a long time between cases.
Usually 1-2 every couple of years. Squirrels and prairie dogs. No big deal.
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:35:27 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
To: ealgeone
That’s my bet. From fleas and and lice on our ‘visitors.’
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:35:32 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
I feel compelled to chime in here: Plague (Yersinia pestis) is endemic in ground squirrels in Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada (if not other high desert states). I’m actually amazed they’ve gone this long without a case.
It was always my biggest worry shooting ground squirrels or harvesting desert cottontails growing up in southern Idaho.
Good news is that modern antibiotics mean it’s no big deal. It ain’t the 14th century anymore.
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:39:24 PM PST
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:49:17 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: verum ago
“Good news is that modern antibiotics mean it’s no big deal.”
If antibiotics were still being manufactured in this country I’’d tend to agree with you. Not any longer.
To: Libloather; Tilted Irish Kilt
So where did the cat get it and how do they know that wherever it got the infected fleas that there aren’t more?
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:55:24 PM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Rats!”
“They fought the dogs.
And killed the cats,
And bit the babies,
In their cradles...”
Need to re-read THE PLAGUE AND THE FIRE by James Leasor
about the plague and fire of London in the 1660s.
To: ealgeone
Iirc, bubonic plague is endemic in rodents in Eastern Oregon.
Rodent -> Cat -> Owner.
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posted on
02/11/2024 4:56:24 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
To: metmom
So where did the cat get it and how do they know that wherever it got the infected fleas that there aren’t more
Plague is endemic in the Oregon / Idaho / Nevada high desert (fleas on wild rodents). There will always be more, unfortunately. That’s why they’re not fussing over the source- there’s no getting rid of it.
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posted on
02/11/2024 5:07:15 PM PST
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: Libloather
Turn your city into a 3rd world craphole and you get 3rd world craphole diseases, who didn’t see that coming?
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posted on
02/11/2024 5:09:42 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
To: ealgeone
Plague is endemic in most rodent populations of the western US. Possibly brought over by ship rats on ships bringing Chinese railway workers and prostitutes.
Don’t play with or rescue small critters out in the wild. Seriously avoid feral cats.
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posted on
02/11/2024 5:19:13 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: ealgeone
It is usually found in prairie dog colonies. Right here in the U.S.
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posted on
02/11/2024 6:56:11 PM PST
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: lastchance
Interesting observations on this topic. Any thoughts on why it’s occurring now?
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posted on
02/11/2024 7:04:27 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: ealgeone
It may be very common in prairie dogs but human cases of plague are rather rare. Just as it was in the past the plague in rodents is spread by flea bites. The infected squirrel or prairie dog is then hunted and eaten.by the domestic pet (most likely a cat). Then the owner gets exposed to the disease.
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posted on
02/11/2024 7:26:14 PM PST
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: wjcsux
Prairie dogs and squirrels do live outside of 3rd world crapholes.
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posted on
02/11/2024 7:27:23 PM PST
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: Libloather
Don’t you just love cats.
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