Fleas test positive for the plague in parts of Arizona

www.azfamily.com ^ | Updated: Aug 14, 2017 3:30 AM CST | Staff

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

Another plague from Arizona. Pity.

TC

[Pilgrim's Progress]

May one fly up John NcCain’s nose!

[Red Badger]

[InABunkerUnderSF]

First McCain, then Napolitano, then Flake, now the Black Death.

But seriously, it's summer and with the monsoon comes the plague - 3 or 4 cases a year. No epidemic yet.

[ThanhPhero]

Alexandre Yersin, who isolated the plague pathogen and for which it is named- Yersinia Pestis, was a French bacteriologist who wound up in Nha Trang, Việt Nam. He had done some exploration in the country and fell in love with it. The Vietnamese, even the Communists, revere him and there are more streets named for him than for any other non ancient figure other than Hồ Chi Minh. The hospital he founded in NT is the equal of the best hospitals in the world. His grave is in the forest in a cleared and carefully tended spot in Khánh Hòa and is a lay pilgrimage site for many.

[discostu]

Been that way for 30 years.

[PUGACHEV]

About twenty years ago I knew an medical doctor from Turkey who was then in his 80s. He told me that he had treated cases of Bubonic Plague and Smallpox.

[Tijeras_Slim]

New Mexico, we're #1!

[tumblindice]

Wage Slave Steve: “I’m a little under the weather, Bob, but I’ll be in later.”
Boss Bob: “Whatcha got Steve?”
Steve: “Just a touch of Black Death.”
Bob: “Take the rest of the summer off, Steve.”

[Red Badger]

One in Chicago?......................

[Red Badger]

Can’t they use D-con?...................

[Tijeras_Slim]

Lots of rats there, gotta go with the percentages.

[Afterguard]

Geeze! First McCain and now this! How will they tell them apart?

[discostu]

Trying to D-con whole mountains would probably be cost prohibitive. Cheaper to just put up signs saying “if you experience flu like symptoms within a couple of weeks of being here, go immediately to your doctor and tell them you have The Plague”. Luckily modern medicine makes it not that big a deal, assuming you actually go to your doctor of course.

[x]

One in Chicago?......................

That was a researcher at UChicago back in 2009.

I haven't been following the Northwestern murder case lately very closely, but the professor involved was another bubonic plague researcher.

[blam]

Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)

"The epidemic of cocoliztli from1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."

"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population."

[bgill]

Poor fleas caught it from biting McPain.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good advice. Out here the doctors know what to look for, even so the occasional death occurs. Other places plague seems medieval, so they don't know. A few years back a couple from Santa Fe were in NYC and the husband had contracted it before going. The docs there didn't have a clue and he ended up losing some limbs.

[Gay State Conservative]

Manuel,have you ever heard of the bubonic plague....