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Fleas test positive for the plague in parts of Arizona
www.azfamily.com ^ | Updated: Aug 14, 2017 3:30 AM CST | Staff

Posted on 08/14/2017 1:51:58 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Release a bunch of them around McCain. We need a backup in case he “survives” his brain cancer.


21 posted on 08/14/2017 3:44:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Nice map.

The dot in Montana is the Brother of a friend of mine from college.

He was guiding some hunters on an antelope hunt.

One of the hunters shot a doe, he offered to field dress it.

A flea bit him (not that he knew at the time)...days later he had some odd pains...the Doctor made a FANTASTIC diagnosis and saved him from some misery. Fantastic call by the Doctor at the time.


22 posted on 08/14/2017 3:48:40 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: blam
Actually, Flea is with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, not Megadeath.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 4:08:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Tilted Irish Kilt; blam

Map at post 9 and historical info at post 17


24 posted on 08/14/2017 4:25:49 PM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: BBB333

Glad to hear that!


25 posted on 08/14/2017 4:42:43 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Gay State Conservative

No, is hamster, filigree.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 4:42:45 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: ThanhPhero

Thanks for that very interesting story.

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27 posted on 08/14/2017 4:47:05 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Red Badger

Doers mclame have fleas?


28 posted on 08/14/2017 4:51:08 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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Probably not. Fleas have class. Not much but enough to know to steer clear of John McCain.


29 posted on 08/14/2017 4:56:04 PM PDT by sport
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To: Whenifhow; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease Ping - fleas as plague vector

Concerns, symptoms and treatment contained in the thread introduction
Map of areas in the USA where plague has historically occurred is at post #9
Historical information about past known plagues and number of fatalities is at post #17

H/T to Whenifhow

30 posted on 08/14/2017 8:34:53 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: blam

But the Desert Bloom from the rains this year bloom not only plants but parasites, too. Fleas just went crazy here in Centex with the extremely rare mid-summer rains.


31 posted on 08/14/2017 8:40:52 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The southwest sure has more than its fair share.


32 posted on 08/14/2017 9:32:17 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: blam

Thanks, I never knew this.


33 posted on 08/14/2017 9:34:11 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Gay State Conservative

Are you from Barcelona?.................


34 posted on 08/15/2017 6:19:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Flea meds for dogs are neurotoxic. I’d focus on making homemade concoctions like garlic oil and rubbing it on the dogs. There are other essential oils that fleas also hate, can’t remember what they are but search online, then mix drops of these oils with a carrier oil like coconut or olive (usually the essential oil is too strong to use alone) and apply and brush into the dog’s fur. Some smell so nice and strong that you literally don’t need much - insects, when they hate a smell, don’t come aboard. So doggy isn’t greasy at all. Just has a slight scent of whatever.


35 posted on 08/15/2017 6:42:57 AM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Mean while...

More than half a million people in Yemen have been infected with cholera since the epidemic began four months ago and 1,975 people have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

36 posted on 08/15/2017 8:43:01 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
plague cases pop up on the Navajo reservations a couple times a year. The real danger is that doctors might not recognize it if the people travel elsewhere and then get sick.

One of Tony Hillerman’s detective novel The First Eagle includes a description of how the local public health department handled the problem by seeking out the source and destroying the animals that are vectors.

that book was published awhile back, but I suspect it's still being done, not just for plague but for the mouse borne Hanta virus that pops up every decade or so.

37 posted on 08/17/2017 7:46:31 PM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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