Posted on 03/11/2024 7:51:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A New Mexico man has died of complications from the bubonic plague as state health officials scramble to assess the ongoing risk in the region.
The unidentified Lincoln Country resident had been hospitalized recently with the bacterial affliction, although the details surrounding how he contracted it and how his health deteriorated remain unclear, the state Department of Health (NMDOH) announced Friday.
Despite medics’ best efforts, the patient succumbed to his symptoms, marking New Mexico’s first recorded case of bubonic plague since 2021.
This was also the state’s first BP-related fatality since 2020; the state recorded four cases of the disease that year alone.
Plague “is a bacterial disease of rodents,” according to the health department, and generally spreads to humans through infected flea bites; it additionally can gain ground through direct contact with infected animals, such as rodents, wildlife and even pets.
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The unidentified Lincoln Country resident = illegal immigrant from...?
bubonic plague is endemic to the mid-western rocky mountain states plains ... it’s primary reservoir are prairie dog colonies which themselves are plagued by plague-carrying fleas, which are the plague vectors ...
human infections mostly occur during the summer when animals and fleas are most active and when humans and their dogs interact the most with the prairie dog colonies ... occasionally, stupid humans let their dogs romp through the colonies, fleas jump ship from prairie dogs to dogs and then jump ship from dogs to humans, ergo, humans infected with plague ... some summers are worse than others for numbers of infections ...
the national scare media randomly hypes individual infections when no other scare is handy, and folks who don’t live in fly-over America freak out: OH MY GOD, THE PLAGUE!
There’s been plague in them thar hills for ages. Probably brought over with ship rats in the 19th century. The problem is that it’s not fatal to rodents. So once it’s in a population it’s in. Cruises around them like the common cold for us. I know a few plague zones in AZ. The key is to know when you’ve been there (there’s usually signs) and if you have ANY flu like symptoms within a week RUN to the doctor, and tell them you were in a plague zone and now you’re sick. Caught early it’s easy to treat. Don’t catch it early, bad things happen.
Oh great, another plague thread.
There are plenty of diseases you can blame uncontrolled immigration for, but plague in the American Southwest isn’t one of them. It’s endemic there, and those of us who grew up controlling prairie dogs and other rodents in the region have long known (many decades now) to take precautions against catching it, especially those with dogs.
Now, if you want to talk about TB or exotic HIV variants or Hepatitis A or the resurgence of measles or Chagas disease or Leishmaniasis or…
But isn’t it worth it considering how we are becoming more diverse and inclusive with all of the illegals pouring across our border? And the 100,000 overdoses, sex trafficking and cartel violence is an acceptable price, so long as we don’t think/talk about it too much.
Their rejection of the USA and Western Civilization, their ignorant passion for the equalization of all cultures, their confusion of liberalism with iconoclasm, their successes in lowering all standards in their misguided enthusiasm for inclusiveness and some muddled idea of equality, and their moral confusion and perversion are merely expressions of their utter stupidity.
As a result of their stupidity, we can expect a recrudescence of all the horrors of the past which Western Civilization conquered.
A return of the black plague is only one.
Defecation on public sidewalks is an open invitation for the return of cholera and other horrible diseases.
The devastation of America due to the stupidity of the woke morons has only just started. Brace yourself for much worse if the stupidity of these idiots is not effectively nullified.
I thought more of The Cars "Let The Good Times Roll
Let the tumbrels roll,
Let them knock you ay-round.
Let the tumbrels roll,
Let them make you a clown.
Let them leave you up in the air,
Let them brush your rock-and-roll.
LET THE TUMBRELS ROLL....
btw, non-pneumonic plague is easily curable IF detected and treated pronto ... wait too long, and it’s lights out forever, though ...
I saw a patient with plague once as a med student; a grunt from the 7th ID (L) out of Ft. Ord who was walking around barefoot at Camp Roberts and the Environmental Health guys thought he got bit by a flea from ground squirrels.
It was bubonic, not pneumonic and painful as anything.
I’ve noticed an increase of fleas/gnats in clothing stores, restaurants, on car, and on window. Almost everywhere you go in our region I see their larva on the floor, on chairs, and on clothing, especially. (The white on your black sweater may not be lint.)
How did it happen? It could be these critters are coming in via container ships that haven’t been sanitized between shipments. Or, are they being dropped via airplanes or being spread intentionally?
Fleas, gnats - all carry disease. Most do not notice, but those who have a propensity to be allergic to them do.
There was a reason jails in this country use to ‘de-louse’ prisoners before incarceration................
Thanks to FJBs ILLEGALS.
"although the details surrounding how he contracted it"
He caught it from the rats' fleas...
I can’t help but resort to sarcasm!
If I run to the doc, I am afraid he will tell me I have covid, and put me on remdesivir and a ventilator.
Modern medicine is not the same as it used to be, when the drug companies, the health insurance conglomerates, and big medical institutions didn’t control doctors.
You’re right, this is a consequence of open borders.
3rd world problems turning into 1st world problems.
Excellent post. Bravo!!
It is rodent borne, you can get it directly from an infected rodent or other infected animal.
(From the Article) "The unidentified Lincoln Country resident had been hospitalized recently with the bacterial affliction,
although the details surrounding how he contracted it and how his health deteriorated remain unclear,
the state Department of Health (NMDOH) announced Friday."
"Despite medics’ best efforts, the patient succumbed to his symptoms, marking New Mexico’s first recorded case of bubonic plague since 2021."
"This was also the state’s first BP-related fatality since 2020; the state recorded four cases of the disease that year alone."
"Plague “is a bacterial disease of rodents,” according to the health department, and generally spreads to humans through infected flea bites;
it additionally can gain ground through direct contact with infected animals, such as rodents, wildlife and even pets."
Saw THAT coming.
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