Posted on 08/22/2020 9:39:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In recent decades, an average of seven human plague cases have been reported each year (range: 1–17 cases per year). Between 1900 and 2012, 1006 confirmed or probable human plague cases occurred in the United States.
...the odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million and the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.
Has it been 5 years? I remember the outbreak at Yosemite not long ago.
How do you find a lightning victim? Does that include people who get super powers? The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.
That doesn't seem that rare?
I remember getting inoculated for Plague before shipping out to Vietnam in 1966 (along with 21 other inoculations). It turns out diseases were the last thing I should have worried about dying from.
This is the new Panic Button.
/Bring out your dead!
Ever wonder why bubonic plague did not break out in Europe during WW II? There were famine struck crowded cities, large prisoner of war camps, unspeakable concentration camps. All these places had rats, fleas and bad sanitation. There was typhus and other infections but no plague. The answer lies in genetic suseptibility. After plague repeatdly ravaged Europen populations over 4,000 years, the susceptibilty gene was gradually eliminated. Interesting footnote. When plague hit 3 out of 4 became ill, of those two recovered and one died. If P was the allele for plague resistance, and p was the allele for susceptibility, then PP meant you were resistant and neither became ill or died, Pp meant you got sick but revovered. pp meant you got sick and died. After a while given that there was no vaccine or cure ( bubonic plague is now very treatable with tetracyclines), the susceptibility gene died out. Most people of European descent are now resistant carrying PP or some Pp . Almost none are pp.
Genes matter. Whether or not you get COVID-19 has more to do with your genetic susceptibility and much less with masks.
And what do we know about the plague patient patient???? Article says resident, but citizen?, foreign traveler?...what else do we know??
My uncle was getting shipped out to Vietnam the next day from Hawaii. But he had a physical and the doctor said he was going to burn up from his fair skin. So they sent him to Kansas, instead. He was in some position he probably wouldn’t have lived long enough to get sunburn. But the military has its ways.
Can your dog detect plague?
Sometimes they're misclassified as COVID deaths. Or when you read that someone was "smoking in bed".
You are absolutely correct-one of my best buddies from our youth went to Viet Nam, and got exposed to Agent Orange. He died from complications from that (including maltreatment from VA) a few years back. He spent his life disabled from it before he died. RIP, Ken.
Well, if he can, he has not mentioned it so far, so it’s all good.
:D
Maybe, but let's not forget the widespread use of DDT, which probably saved more lives than all the medicine ever practiced, especially when you consider it's effectiveness against malaria.
#5. rexthecat: I too got a Plague shot before going to So. Vietnam in Oct. 1970 as a journalist attached to a fact-finding mission. When we got to our hotel, The Majestic, on Tu Do Street in Saigon, we were greeted by a hugh sign across the lobby of the building that said “International Plague Conference” on the 3rd floor.
Small world.
Now the only rats I see on a daily basis are DemocRAT/leftists. They are more dangerous than the four-legged kind. They betrayed us in Vietnam and now they are trying to overrun America. Once a rat, always a rat. Just look at Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters and tell me that they are not human rats of the worst kind.
“A South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for the human plague, the first case in California in five years.
“The person, “an avid walker,” may have been bitten by an infected flea while walking their dog along the Truckee River in the Tahoe Keys area, according to El Dorado health officials.
You could have a side business using your dog to detect pregnancy. It’s better than having to pee on a piece of plastic right?
I never checked.
Before his untimely death, Dr. George Chambers, DO & expert in mammal to human transmission of infectious diseases told me (one weekend at TXARNG drill) that the “largest concentration of plague-bearing vectors” in CONUS is prairie dogs, ground squirrels & other smaller rodents on the very large but sparsely populated Indian Reservations of AZ & NM.
Dr. Chambers further said, after I asked, that the MAJOR reason that we have so FEW cases of plague in the USA is that there are FEW instances where the vector, which has inflected fleas, comes in contact with an uninfected human.
Yours, TMN78247
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