[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.)

[TigersEye]

As has been pointed out twice before plague is endemic to New Mexico. Most commonly east of the Sandia mountains. Abq is west of the Sandias. Santa Fe is about 40 - 50 miles NE of the Sandias. There are a couple of cases there every year. This story is a yawner.