Man in NY Hospital has Bubonic Plague

Fox News | 11/6/2002 | Heff

[Heff]

Man admitted to a NY hospital has Bubonic Plague but Greta from Fox News is reporting that health officials say the man got it naturally and its nothing to worry about.

They also admitted a woman, who had been traveling with the infected man.

[TexKat]

Looks like we will not only have to fingerprint, and photograph foreigners coming into our country, but we also need to bath and sterilize them before releasing them into the public.

[TexKat]

I have had 2 sets of free tickets to the movies for some time, but can't seem to get away from cable news shows. Everyday there is something new and execiting.

[fight_truth_decay]

Repeat!!It is very hard to transmit, is easily identified by any medical professional, has a very low mortality rate, and can be treated very effectively with inexpensive antibiotics. One of the main methods of treatment for bubonic plague is the antibiotic Tetracycline, which is commonly prescribed to teenagers with severe acne. This antibiotic is readily, and cheaply available even in the most rural locations.

[SarahW]

Bubonic plague is treatable with antibiotics.

Plus, most americans come from European stock that survived that plague...many would have enough natural immunity to survive it, even if they contracted the disease.

[Tennessee_Bob]

That, and kill all the vermin out west. I heard about several plague cases while I was stationed at Nellis.

[TexKat]

Tetracycline, which is commonly prescribed to teenagers with severe acne.

Isn't that the stuff that a parent tried to sue the makers because it caused her son to commit suicide.

[TexKat]

Doctors say while the female patient is out of danger, her husband is in extremely critical condition. They say he was admitted with a fever of 105 degrees. High fever is one of the symptoms of the Bubonic plague.

[seeker41]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A couple visiting from New Mexico are believed to have contracted bubonic plague and if confirmed this would constitute the first case of the illness in New York City in more than 100 years, health officials said on Wednesday.

The two are "being evaluated for plague," Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden told a news conference. The male patient, 53, is a presumptive positive for the illness and is in critical condition, he said. The female patient, 47, is in stable condition, officials said.

There is no risk to New Yorkers as bubonic plague is not contagious, Frieden said. Officials are "confident" the couple's exposure to the plague occurred in New Mexico, he said.

"All the epidemiological evidence suggests that these infections were naturally acquired in New Mexico," Frieden said. The source of the infection is "believed to be rodents or rodent fleas near their home," he said.

Plague is spread among people when an infected person has plague pneumonia and coughs droplets containing the plague bacteria into air that is breathed by a non-infected person.

Bubonic plague, which swept through Europe during the Middle Ages, has largely been eradicated. But the illness does still occur, with about a dozen cases reported each year in the United States, mostly in the rural Southwest, experts say.

The unidentified couple went to the emergency room at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan on Tuesday night after several days of flu-like symptoms, high fevers and swollen lymph nodes, the hospital said in a statement. They were immediately placed in isolation, the hospital said.

If detected early, the illness is treatable with antibiotics. Bubonic plague occurs in areas where infection of wild animals is common. Plague also is one of the most feared potential biological weapons.

[fight_truth_decay]

This is the News Media SHOUTING FIRE IN A CROWDED ROOM" and the spread of panic without facts is just as much a Plague.

Goodnight.

[Let's Roll]

"...they really should do something about that...lol"

The EPA won't let them - it would interfere with that area's wetlands program.

[Cindy]

CDC Sear Term: "BUBONIC PLAGUE"
http://search.cdc.gov/search97cgi/s97is.dll?collection=cdcall1&Action=filterSearch&ResultTemplate=advresult.hts&queryText=Bubonic+Plague&querytext2=&opt1=phrase1&opt3=htmlpdf&CaseSensitive=false&SortField=Modified&filter=advsearch.hts

[TexKat]

Goodnight.

[CedarDave]

See info on plague and plague prevention in New Mexico here. (Note especially the reference to removal of wrecked cars and piles of refuse from yards as an important preventative!)

[tutstar]

Laurie Dhue said that it can be treated with antibiotics...hmmmmm

[tutstar]

Bubonic is transmitted by fleas
I guess it would be a good idea to get some Advantage for the dog.......

[CedarDave]

PING for a New Mexico disease in the Big Apple. Must be a couple of Santa Fe greenies who let their sleeping bag get a little too close to the rodents who inhabit their woodpile. PING to other NM Freepers who need a chuckle tonight about something that would barely make the news here in "the Land of the Flea and Home of the Plague".

[woofie]

Its all them rats

[CedarDave]

Good evening -- I'm really glad to see Heather pulled it out last night. You were right about her coming from behind.

[concerned about politics]

officials say the man got it naturally and its nothing to worry about.

That's the same thing they said about the first case of anthrax, BTW.
I guess they were just visiting NYC.