The plague is endemic in fleas on rodents and small wild animals
in the US Southwest. Most people who contract it are
first treated with antibiotics after presenting with
the typical symptoms, and only a few days later
do the test results confirm the presumed diagnosis.
The riskiest situation is exposure to plague and
then quickly traveling
to some other location where plague is rarely seen,
and doctors at the destination do not know to look
at the symptoms as possibly plague,
and to tentatively treat for plague
before testing confirms the diagnosis. Medical groups
in New Mexico have several time done public awareness
programs using the tag line: “Land of the flea, home of the plague.”
Yep. And hantavirus is carried by rodents, rather than fleas, mostly west of the Mississippi in many states.
Actually, there are about a half dozen terrible, rodent-borne human-transmissible diseases at this link (except Lassa is in Africa, not the US that I know of):
I mean, bubonic has been been around for a while, and as far as threats go it's not exactly the highest on the list. Cholera, malaria, influenza, etc are all quite a bit more dangerous to society, as is coronavirus while it's actively spreading.
35 years ago I dated a Continental airlines stewardess who told me as a young girl she was diagnosed with the bubonic plague and treated. They never discovered where she picked it up as a young girl in Texas.
Nice illogical, racist rant. In case you don't understand science (and it seems like you don't), the bubonic plague doesn't care what its victims' beliefs are.
"In 2015, 16 people in the Western United States developed plague, including 2 cases in Yosemite National Park.[20] These US cases usually occur in rural northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada."
China just outlawed the consumption of wild animals. They're actively confiscating all wild animal meat. But since there is still a market for it, the ban could just make the prices go higher and the situation could effectively worsen.
They implemented a ban on ivory a couple of years ago as well. But this ban should have been implemented earlier.
[+] [-] dmckeon|6 years ago|reply
The riskiest situation is exposure to plague and then quickly traveling to some other location where plague is rarely seen, and doctors at the destination do not know to look at the symptoms as possibly plague, and to tentatively treat for plague before testing confirms the diagnosis. Medical groups in New Mexico have several time done public awareness programs using the tag line: “Land of the flea, home of the plague.”
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
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[+] [-] forkexec|6 years ago|reply
Actually, there are about a half dozen terrible, rodent-borne human-transmissible diseases at this link (except Lassa is in Africa, not the US that I know of):
https://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html
[+] [-] 9nGQluzmnq3M|6 years ago|reply
That sounds like a much catchier slogan for tourism than the current "Here, Every True Adventure Has a Story". https://www.newmexico.org/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/science/plague-is-found-i...
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[+] [-] ken47|6 years ago|reply
"In 2015, 16 people in the Western United States developed plague, including 2 cases in Yosemite National Park.[20] These US cases usually occur in rural northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague
[+] [-] 29athrowaway|6 years ago|reply
They implemented a ban on ivory a couple of years ago as well. But this ban should have been implemented earlier.