Posted on 06/13/2012 7:57:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
An Oregon man is at death's door in a hospital battling a rare case of the infamous “Black Death” plague, health officials said.
The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, was bitten on the hand while trying to pull a mouse away from a stray cat on June 2 and got sick several days later, doctors at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend told The Oregonian newspaper.
The man was thought to be suffering from septicemic plague — meaning the ruthless bacteria was spreading in his bloodstream — and was in critical condition on Tuesday, doctors said.
Karen Yeargain, the county health department's communicable disease coordinator, told The Oregonian that officials were working to confirm that the man had the plague, but that all the symptoms were there, including stomach pain, bleeding mouth, nose and anus and dying tissue.
He's just the fifth person to catch the plague in the state since 1995.
Only about 10 to 15 people in the United States catch the frightening illness each year, typically in western states.
Globally, health officials report about 1,000 to 3,000 cases per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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I recall a story about some scientist who took a spoonfull of DDT by mouth, every day, for several years as an attempt to prove it was safe
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I bet there were no flies on him.
To be fair the cat-flea vector is more common for single cases of typhus.
Human to human transmission is vectored by infected lice and is generally epidemic rather than single cases.
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Oh yes! Love that one. An American 'Classic'; as was Yogi Berra.
I don’t know if your joking or not but your probably 100% right in your statement.
Thank you for the post!
I don’t take birds & mice out of my cats’ mouths because I’m a vegetarian! I do it to save the life of the little creature who is screaming unmercifully in my ear. One of the worst sounds in the world is a cat with a victim. Yes, cats are carnivores; but if they’re gonna be so dumb as to snare a mouse or baby bird in my presence, they gonna hear from me.
I’m going to stick with my original posting: this is the silliest thread in the world. Some guy is croaking from the plague and freepers are demanding to see his party registration!
Maybe the mouse was his dinner and the cat stole it...thiefen cats everywhere...
I thought Stray Cats don't bother chasing mice around.
Wow.
Just, wow.
The annoying Gilbert Gottfried wannabe returns to make my life a living hell!!!!
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(Don't you have some mountain lion somewhere who needs squirrels and other small animals pulled out of it's mouth? LOL)
Hey, what’s with all you guys being so scared of pussy cats? I’ve got a cat on my table as I write this and if she chews on something (or, more importantly, scratches on something), she’s gonna have a little “time out.” It’s not exactly putting your hand in the mouth of the MGM lion.
I've got two.
Hey, isn't there a grizzly bear somewhere, that you need to pull small animals out of it's mouth? LOL
Marie Curie was pretty smart but she and her husband practically played with plutonium.
We had a grizzly in our surburban backyard about two years ago. I did wrestle it to the ground while my husband called the cops. Amazing how the word spread out in the grizzly community...
Don't you have a shark somewhere that you need to wrestle fish out of it's mouth?
Would you recommend McCullogh’s “American in Paris”....is it kind of light reading? I’m looking for something kind of light, as I finish Cheney’s AutoBio
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