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The title seems like a no-brainer to most of you, or so I’d assume. We’ve already got more than our fair share of plagues currently wreaking havoc around the Earth, with potentially some other golden oldies waiting for their turn to get the band back together. We certainly don’t need any infectious contagions from the Moon, Mars, the upper atmosphere of Venus or anywhere else dropping in on us. But as we Earthlings prepare a new fleet of missions heading to all of those locations and more, with some scheduled to bring samples back home for study, how do...

A 15-year-old boy has died from bubonic plague in western Mongolia, according to government health officials. The teenager caught the plague after hunting and eating marmot, according to Dorj Narangerel, spokesperson for Mongolia's Ministry of Health. He died on Sunday. Marmots are large ground squirrels, a type of rodent, that have historically been linked to plague outbreaks in the region. Tests confirmed the teenager had contracted bubonic plague and authorities imposed quarantine measures in the Tugrug district of Gobi-Altai province. Mongolia has recorded 692 cases of marmot plague from 1928 to 2018. Of those, 513 died of the disease, equivalent...

Colorado health officials announced a squirrel in the state tested positive for the bubonic plague. Health officials reported the squirrel was the first documented case of the disease in the Town of Morrison in Jefferson County. Bubonic plague is an infectious illness caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. Scientists said the disease spreads through bites of infected fleas and can affect not only humans but also household animals. The World Health Organization explained those suffering from the disease experience their lymph nodes getting inflamed. The painful swollen glands are, in some countries, called "bubo." While the disease is highly infectious,...

India has been hit by the worst locust storm the country has experienced in nearly 30 years, as the nation grapples with the ongoing coronavirus crisis that has overrun hospitals. Swarms of millions of desert locusts that stretch up to 4 miles long crossed into the Western state of Rajasthan from Pakistan at the beginning of May and have since entered Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) believes that the current locust crisis was caused by the strong winds that followed the Cyclone Amphan that hit India and Bangladesh on May 20. The...

...Prof. Haak will also try to detect more plague DNA in hundreds of skeletons from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. So far, DNA evidence from a dozen skeletons points to little variability between the strains of Yersinia pestis in such remains, suggesting that the pestilence spread rapidly across the continent. The speed may owe to another human advance at this time -- the domestication of wild horses, which may literally have carried the disease into Europe. "We see the change from wild local horses to domesticated horses, which happened rapidly at the beginning of the Bronze Age," said...

DidDid you get seriously sick this year? Have you, like many others, been wondering if it was COVID-19? “I get emails every day,” says George Rutherford, a University of California San Francisco epidemiologist. They say things like, “I think I might have had it. I really want to know,” he says. Maybe you’ve been tempted by the wave of antibody tests that recently hit the market — but don’t think that just because you can buy a test, it will be accurate. There are lots of tests available, but it’s not entirely clear which ones are best. Tests can go...

new thread Corona Virus Daily Thread #52 COVID-19 5/12/2020

For a while there, we were convinced that we’d discovered the next great plague of 2020 after the novel coronavirus. We were told that the Asian Murder Hornets had arrived in North America and they were going to finish wiping out the honeybees and potentially a number of us as well. But was it all just a bunch of hype designed to generate hilarious memes on social media? That’s the opinion of at least some entomologists. These alleged “bug experts” are telling the Washington Examiner that the insects aren’t really murderous and they’re “just another type of hornet.” While...

The great waves of plague that twice devastated Europe and changed the course of history had their origins in China, a team of medical geneticists reported Sunday, as did a third plague outbreak that struck less harmfully in the 19th century.

Corona Virus Daily Thread #51 COVID-19 5/07/2020

Corona Virus Daily Thread #50 COVID-19 5/04/2020

The thought just occurred to me, how many people have been deliberately infected by someone in hopes that they would die to rid themselves of said individual for a variety of reasons? Could someone have infected someone from work that had enraged them? Could someone have infected a spouse for a more efficient resolution of problems than divorce? Could someone have infected someone to hasten an inheritance? The possibilities are almost endless. What are Democrats and the media doing to protect us from this? Talk about the perfect crime.

Video Here. UK police are looking for a walker dressed as a 17th Century plague doctor during the coronavirus lockdown. According to local media, people in Norwich have spotted the mystery person dressed in a long black cloak, hat, and pointed beak-like mask. The filmer, Jade Gosbell told Newsflare: "I just couldn’t believe it. It was 20 degrees and some guy was just walking around head to toe in a huge black plague doctor costume with a mask covering his face. I just thought it was ridiculous as he must have been so hot, so just be getting some...

Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020

Coconino County Health and Human Services says fleas have tested positive for plague in the Baderville area northwest of Flagstaff. County staff notified residents and treated burrows and will also closely monitor the area for the disease. It’s the first confirmed case of plague in fleas this year in the county, but officials say there are likely more locations with the infection because it is endemic to Coconino County. Health staff will continue to collect and test flea samples throughout the area. Plague is a potentially serious disease that can be transmitted to humans through a flea bite or contact...

Click here for commentary by noted Epidemiologist Knutt WittkowskiThis well-known Epidemiologist tells us that there has been a huge overreaction to this virus. It is becoming obvious that lots of people around the world are using this for political gain instead of having concern for peoples' welfare. This is an EXCELLENT video giving a proper perspective of the entire situation.

A plague of locusts that struck Africa hard has returned with a vengeance and like the archetypal plague in Egypt. Billions of young locusts are spreading out from their breeding grounds in Somalia, newly hatched after seasonal rains, eating more than the older insects that passed through already. A wave of locusts swept through East Africa last year but the current wave is estimated to be 20 times larger and is described as the worst in 70 years. This wave very much resembles the Biblical plague in this respect, coming as part of a wave of catastrophes that left the...

I explore Muhammad's track record of prophecy, and explain how the COVID19 outbreak demolishes one of his assertions about the susceptibility of Muslims to succumbing to infectious diseases and viruses.

[Catholic Caucus] The Swords of St. Michael Archangel's blade processed through streets of Gargano to combat virus While Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò is rallying bishops and priests around the world for a communal "Exorcism against Satan and the Apostate Angels" on Holy Saturday, St. Michael is again flashing his sword as many faithful are again turning to him for protection during this time of universal strife. Sword of St. Michael The priests and townspeople in the Italian town of Gargano called on St. Michael the Archangel on Palm Sunday to help them in their fight against the Wuhan virus.  A famed statue of St. Michael with sword held high resides in...

...Pierce started prophesying last September and then again in January about what the world is going through now. He said, "plague-like" conditions would hit the Earth through February, March, and April. In a new interview with CBN News on "The Prayer Link" show, he also had a word of hope about Passover. "This year would be the year that Believers would really have to understand Passover and that we will pass over!"..