New York City Plague cases?

WABC ^ | 11/06/2002 | abc local

[oldironsides]

Bubonic plague

[areafiftyone]

Your link doesn't work but here is the one on Eyewitness news NYC Medical Scare: Two Being Treated At Area Hospital For Bubonic Plague

[SamAdams76]

I do not know.

[areafiftyone]

Everyone on the other link is laughing and joking about this. But this CAN Be spread from human to human. I hope they have these people quarantined. This spread like wildfire in Europe.

[oldironsides]

Thanks. I got called away before i could fix it.......:>)
Looks like the rat problem in the city is going to cause more than overturned garbage cans? Good Lord

[Plutarch]

This could be quite serious, because if people in those high rises "throw down their dead", the hazard to pedestrians would be tremendous.

[jmc813]

Why is it that every time I have a cold (which is not very often, but is the case now), stories like this pop up and scare the heck out of me. I swear, it never fails.

[Plutarch]

But this CAN Be spread from human to human.

Very true. Plague can spread two ways, the first through the bites from fleas carried by rats or other rodents, the second is air borne from plague pneumonia. The airborne route is EXTREMELY contagious and likewise rapidly FATAL.

[Lucas1]

Thread already going here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/783941/posts

[conservaDave]

ROTFLOL!!! That is one of the funniest posts I have ever seen. Good one! "Throw out your dead"!!!

[Gorzaloon]

Very true. Plague can spread two ways, the first through the bites from fleas carried by rats or other rodents, the second is air borne from plague pneumonia. The airborne route is EXTREMELY contagious and likewise rapidly FATAL.

Hmm.

West Nile Virus was first detected in New York, too.

Isn't that curious.

[corkoman]

Throw out your dead!

[livius]

The infected people (a man and wife) are from Santa Fe, NM, and visiting NYC. Prairie dogs and other rodents in the West are big carriers of the plague, so I think this is just a more or less "normal" outbreak.

[RnMomof7]

Ring around the rosey
pocket full of poseys
Ashes Ashes we all fall down

Courtesy of the last Bubonic Plague

[DoctorMichael]

If my memory serves me right...........................

Bubonic Plaque responds well to antibiotics such as Ampicillin (which nobody knew about in the middle ages)

It's "vector" is the fleas on rodents, presumably like the rats in NYC

You may hear of outbreaks at campgrounds from time to time in California (from chipmunks, squirrels etc.)

[aruanan]

The infected people (a man and wife) are from Santa Fe, NM, and visiting NYC.

True. Plague is endemic in New Mexico.

[Gorzaloon]

They're not dead! They are...resting! See! He just moved!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

It's "vector" is the fleas on rodents, presumably like the rats in NYC

The RATS are thick in NYC (though not as thick in D.C. as they were yesterday).

So are large rodents.

[Robert_Paulson2]

yes it did 1200 years ago... by lice and fleas.
It is not really easy to spread, if you limit access to common blood ingesting pets.

If this were a terrorist hybrid, we COULD have a problem.
I doubt we do at this time.

[HangThemHigh]

"It is not really easy to spread, if you limit access to common blood ingesting pets."

Does this mean I should get rid of my pet bats and leaches?