Posted on 10/09/2010 7:53:22 AM PDT by FromLori
BROOMFIELD, Colo. - Broomfield health officials have closed an area of open space after an entire colony of prairie dogs has died.
"We believe the die-off was caused by the infection of plague," health department official Jeff Stoll said.
The department has posted signs, warning people to stay out of areas south and west of the First Bank Center.
They've also dusted the area for fleas. The concern is the fleas that once lived on the prairie dogs can carry the disease.
The area is popular with dog walkers like Mallory Clark.
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Plague is people too, according to the lefties in Boulder.
One word: DDT. If yuppies being eaten by bed bugs doesn’t bring DDT back, the black death just might...
No doubt Eugenics demons see opportunity written all over this.
To put some perspective on this, I live near the epicenter of Plague infected Prairie Dog colonies on the border of Larimer and Boulder counties. Every couple of years one or two people get infected with Plague because they let their dogs loose to romp about and chase Prarie Dogs in infected colonies.
Then Rover comes home all covered with infected fleas, and before you know it, nature has taken her course, and Rover’s owner is suddenly quite ill. Fortunately, Plague is easily cured with rather ordinary antibiotics. Curing stupidity is a bit more difficult.
I suspect most of the folks that get ill like that around here have recently moved here from out of state, as most of the rest of us know to stay the hell away from Prairie Dog colonies.
How convenient they’ve left out the “Bubonic” part of the plague in the article.
This has been a problem in the Denver area for at least 4 years, so it’s nothing new. But the Black Plague lingers and we should be vigil in controlling it.
Prairie dog fishing is a growing sport. It's big in northern Colorado.
http://www.lovelandnet.com/toms-place/writing/pdf/index.htm
a .223 plague....
As a kid I used to roam the prairie dog colonies and open fields in Boulder and the county looking for insects and snakes. Of course almost all that area is now under pavement.
Nature cures overpopulation. Now lets get a program in place for those hungry coyotes left behind because of this cruel rodent die off.
If a whole colony died, the stench would keep people away it seems to me....followed by a bazillion flys....
LOL,
I live in Boulder, frequent the open space with my dogs.
Colonies appear to die off regularly ~ every five years. Down by the airport, the colony died off around 5 years ago. The prairie rats started moving back in about a year ago after the vegetation recovered.
In another few years they’ll have decimated the foliage in the area making it again look like the moon. Shortly there after the rats are all gone and the plague signs go up, again.
As some one stated, nature has a way of dealing with population issues.
Had a moon-bat tell me it was a conspiracy by the developers to get the land.
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