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A 7-Year-Old Girl Caught Bubonic Plague On A Camping Trip
TBI ^ | Allison Jackson

Posted on 09/09/2012 7:38:53 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 09/09/2012 7:38:57 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
This is not surprising news. There has always been plague in New Mexico.
2 posted on 09/09/2012 7:42:05 AM PDT by Ditter
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Poor little girl! The article states she was moved out of intensive care so I am hoping that is a good sign. I can’t imagine what her parents are going through. If a doctor told me that one of my babies had the Bubonic Plague... I think I’d collapse right there and then.


3 posted on 09/09/2012 7:42:43 AM PDT by momtothree
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At least it’s now treatable.


4 posted on 09/09/2012 7:45:37 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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"This is not surprising news. There has always been plague in New Mexico. "

Yup...along with Hanta Virus, etc.

5 posted on 09/09/2012 7:47:42 AM PDT by blam
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Thank goodness for that! I guess my response would be extreme after watching the History Channel... all the deaths and what a horrible way to die.


6 posted on 09/09/2012 7:51:35 AM PDT by momtothree
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**There has always been plague in New Mexico. ***

It’s has been called Democrats.

Oh wait! Different plague!


7 posted on 09/09/2012 7:58:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: blam

CO needs to become more like South Dakota and Wyoming and shoot more prairie dogs.


8 posted on 09/09/2012 8:10:48 AM PDT by 03A3
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To: Bride Of Old Sarge

Health Crisis PING


9 posted on 09/09/2012 8:10:55 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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I read an interesting article several years ago that made a convincing argument that Yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) was not the organism responsible for “the black death” in Europe. I wish I could find it.


10 posted on 09/09/2012 8:14:05 AM PDT by outofstyle (Down All the Days)
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To: blam
A good thing to note, all of the dangerous plagues that are of a bacterial origin, respond to doxycycline. Yersinia, Anthrax, Francisella, Coxiella, and all of the tick borne rickettsiae and related organisms all respond to doxy. Doxy is a good drug to have for preppers.
11 posted on 09/09/2012 8:24:47 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Syphilis is suspected to be one of the plagues that coincided with the Black Death.


12 posted on 09/09/2012 8:26:25 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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When I lived in Colorado in the early 90’s they publicly encouraged killing prarie dogs because they carried the plague. Sounds like that program may have ended.


13 posted on 09/09/2012 8:28:24 AM PDT by RainMan (After 4 years of Hope and Change America needs a little R&R)
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To: blam

“ashes ashes we all fall down”


14 posted on 09/09/2012 8:30:24 AM PDT by tongass kid
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This is not surprising news. There has always been plague in New Mexico.

Their has always been plague in the 4 corners area, all 4 states see the plague on a cyclic basis. If that one doctor practices in Colorado long enough this won't be the last case of the plague she sees. Normally the Prairie Dogs are the ones who carry it, they seem to go dormant for years and then their will be an out break. Usually the Indians, mainly remote living Navahos, are the ones who come down with it.

15 posted on 09/09/2012 8:40:54 AM PDT by calex59
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Correction on post 15, “and then their” should actually read “and then there”.


16 posted on 09/09/2012 8:44:08 AM PDT by calex59
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She was lucky not to have caught Hanta virus. That is 30% fatal.


17 posted on 09/09/2012 8:44:08 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Obama- If you get re-elected, who are you gonna blame for the mess you will inherit?)
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Hanta Virus has already killed two people that stayed in the tent cabins in Yosemite Nat’l Park this Summer. Many more may be infected.


18 posted on 09/09/2012 8:48:52 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: vetvetdoug

Many years ago before Mexico turned into the cesspool it is now we used to go there twice a year. About a week before we would leave one of us would go to the doc and get doxicyclene. It will keep you from getting tourista too. Most docs will prescribe it for that if you ask.


19 posted on 09/09/2012 8:49:18 AM PDT by sheana
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Now it’s three who have died from Hanta virus in Yosemite. And there are people all over the world now ill with it from traveling this summer to Yosemite.


20 posted on 09/09/2012 8:53:01 AM PDT by Yaelle
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