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To: chopperk
The plague recently showed up here in the USA.

No, bubonic plague is endemic in the western states, including Oregon, where I live. Has been for a very long time.

I know of no plague epidemics in the Americas. Who brought it over from Europe, and when?

13 posted on 03/11/2024 12:45:27 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

Good question.

We have several completely empty (like everyone left, leaving their goods in place) indigenous villages in the desert SW. One on our ranch in NM you can only access by a narrow gorge and then built into a cave system. Spring fed water flowing out from the mountains.

It’s on private land and we’ve kept it fairly quiet to avoid looters.

The university people we’ve let see it think it was plaque or more likely hanta virus which ripped through North America in the late 1400/1500s. Greatly depopulated the Americas just in time for Europeans to come in force.


14 posted on 03/11/2024 2:37:16 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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