Posted on 07/07/2020 7:59:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
First coronavirus, then murder hornets, now bubonic plague?! Authorities in China have responded to one confirmed case of the black death and another suspected case. Both cases emerged in the semi-autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
According to Chinese Communist Party reports, a herdsman in Bayannur contracted bubonic plague and is in quarantine and in stable condition, the BBC reported. Officials also said they were investigating a second case.
That case involves a 15-year-old patient who came down with a fever after close contact with a marmot hunted by a dog.
#Mongolia discovered another suspected patient infected with the bubonic plague. The 15-year-old patient had a fever after being in contact with a marmot hunted by a dog, according to Mongolian health authorities on Monday. pic.twitter.com/JJ2sEH9uoB
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) July 6, 2020
Chinese officials issued a level-3 alert, forbidding the hunting and eating of animals that could carry plague and calling on the public to report suspected cases. The alert will last throughout the rest of 2020.
Bubonic plague, caused by a bacterial infection, launched one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. The black death killed about 50 million people across Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 1300s. Other large outbreaks followed, with one wave killing about a fifth of London’s population during the Great Plague of 1665. More than 12 million people died in outbreaks during the 1800s in China and India.
Today, however, doctors easily treat the bubonic plague using antibiotics. If untreated, however, the disease has a 30-60 percent fatality rate. Symptoms include high fever, chills, nausea, weakness, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, or groin.
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While much remains unclear about the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, the bubonic plague is well understood by modern medicine. This makes an outbreak far less likely.
Even though an outbreak in Madagascar involved more than 300 cases in 2017, a study in The Lancet found that fewer than 30 people died.
While it remains unclear how the man with the confirmed case of bubonic plague became infected, it is likely he contracted it through contact with a marmot. Last May, two people in Mongolia died of the bubonic plague. They contracted the disease after eating the raw meat of a marmot, the same type of rodent the teenager came in contact with.
Note to self: Don’t eat the raw meat of a marmot.
Once again... China. Nuke that wretched land from orbit.
Black plague, Yersinia Pestis is treatable with antibiotics, streptomycin to be specific.
I had plague in 1970. The first 10 days they gave me ampicillin and it did nothing. They finally switched me to streptomycin and I got better. I got the disease from a defective batch of vaccine.
How long has this been going on?
And didn’t a judge just rule we have to let anyone in?
“I have a pen”....
The corrupt Corporate Media wants us to be terrified and hiding in our homes in fear, begging for someone to save us from the latest plague. The truth is the the Western States of America already have Bubonic Plague. I remember reading many years ago an article I saw in the National Geographic Magazine about it in America.I believe it said that the Prairie Dogs had fleas that carry it. The story pointed out that President Reagan had to tuck his pant cuffs into his boots to avoid the fleas when he was working on his ranch in California.
Watched a video a while back of a family doing a bushwhack trip across Mongolia in a van. One morning a horseman rode up with a dead marmot and played with it for the camera posing it in various positions and smiling like he’d found the Holy Grail.
looks like the gopher from CaddyShack
Groundhog Day!
Back in the 60s, when I went to Philmont Scout Ranch in NM, we had to be careful since the rats and prarie dogs in the wild, were all carrying fleas with the plague.
we get plague outbreaks right around me fairly frequently in my part of colorado ... fleas carry the plague germ and prairie dog colonies host the fleas ... idiots sometimes let their dogs run loose in the colonies and then they and the dogs become infected ... it’s not something we worry about here ... rabid bats and skunks are more of a threat ...
no need to post panic porn here ...
And the reason we have plague in the US today is because around 1900 or so, the politicians of San Francisco refused to admit plague was then infecting Chinatown.
Now it is here permanently.
I got inoculated for plague back in 1966. Still got my book somewhere. Wonder if I am still “safe”.
A recovering victim in China was heard to say:
“I’m alright
Nobody worry ‘bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can’t you just let it be?”
Caddy Shack! No matter how sophisticated we may be, Caddy Shack, A Christmas Vacation and a loud fart still cracks me up.
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