Plague decoded: Researchers link 2 of the most devastating pandemics in history

ctvnews.ca ^ | January 27, 2014 | Christina Commisso

[Graybeard58]

According to ancient astronaut theorists............

[Graybeard58]

How many died because of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Islam in that same time span?

How many have died of abortions since Roe v. Wade?

[logi_cal869]

So, the Lyubov Orlova is potentially bringing Black Death to Britain?

or

Liberal RATS will be the death of us?

(damn it’s late)

[353FMG]

Yup. So true.

[Starstruck]

Suddenly I don’t feel so good... say, was that a throw-uppy plague? or a cough-chunks-of-your-lungs-out plague?

Just so its not the organs-turn-to-liquid plague. I hate when that happens.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...(Thanks, nully!)

[Smokin' Joe]

There are rodent reservoirs in the American West as well.

Yep. Those "oh! So Cuuuute!" Prairie Dogs, for starters. (Not to mention mice and Hantavirus, but that's another bug entirely).

[virgil]

Plague must be endemic in Vietnam. I know someone who was in Vietnam while working for the Public Health Svc. He got the plague while he was there.

[Mark17]

It was from the US government stating that any aircraft crossing the border would be fired upon without warning.

Yeah, well, I can see where that might shake some people up. I am sure we all remember where we were when 9/11 happened. I was in the prison, and a criminal, who had been watching TV, came and told me about the first aircraft. I thought maybe it was an accident. Then he came and told me about the second one, and I knew it was no accident.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[Mark17]

but i did register for selective service when i was 18

But did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night? :-)

[Jimmy Valentine]

It is my understanding that Plague arrived from Egypt with rats on grain ships. You are right about the devastation though

Justinian was a great emperor but overreached trying to restore the western Roman Empire

[exDemMom]

The bacterium Yersinia pestis has jumped from rodents to humans throughout history, and Poinar said rodent reservoirs of plague still exist today in parts of Asia and Ukraine.

We have plenty of plague-infected critters right here in the US. There have been 21 human cases of plague between 2009 and 2013.

[exDemMom]

We’re much more effective at both treating, and identifying the source. But I do think we have forgotten how to quarantine or lost the will to. We didn’t do so good with SARS.

I beg to differ.

SARS was quite infectious, and had it escaped our control measures, it could have been devastating. Public health officials managed to stop it through rigorous isolation and infection control measures. Had SARS broken out in a different area of the world--like in a refugee camp somewhere, where there are no modern medical facilities--the story might have been different.

We know far better how to control the spread of disease than they did back during the plague pandemics.

[exDemMom]

A Japanese scientist named Kitasato Shibasaburō was a rival claimant for primacy.

Nothing against the good Dr. Shibasaburo, but it *is* easier to say "Yersinia pestis" than it would be to say something like "Shibasaburoides pestis." Although had that ended up being the bug's name, we'd probably always just say "S. pestis."

[GOPJ]

Thanks Joe..

[cycjec]

thanks for the OP!

[cycjec]

thanks for the OP!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bigheadfred.