Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say
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... What?
Plague is still around, but people don't really die from it any more because of modern medicine.
Very fitting that the Americans are about to get rid of modern medicine.
There are places along the highway in northern California that have signs warning you not to walk into the forest because you could get the plague.
I camped at a spot on a road trip by the border of Arizona and California and all around the campsite it warned of squirrels with plague, we felt uneasy all night
It's not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it's any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.
Well... some areas of America are.
Federally
Have you seen who's running your health department
Yeah jt stopped being a problem because it's an easy bacteria
People usually think that Yersinia pestis was left in the Middle Ages, but that’s not the case. Just let the rats breed, and you can create another plague epidemic.
RFK: hold my raw milk
You'd also need to make it immune to the various antibiotics that work on it. Otherwise it's not particularly difficult to treat with modern medicine.
That's really hard, which is why they went with preventing people from being able to access healthcare.
A biologist, Eric York, caught the plague from a mountain lion from Yellowstone that had fleas with the plague. This is the 2007 incident.
Don't ruin Yellowstone for me please.
What if they start it?
I dumped him and quit the gym. Wait, this is why I don't have a wife..
I've been there. It's beautiful. It's also very easy to stay a respectful distance away from the wildlife. I don't understand what you mean by "ruin".
Don't ruin Mountain Lions! Plague or not, I will fully accept the consequences for petting a mountain lion.
Well I'm glad there are competent and responsible people in charge of disease control. Oh wait...
There have been plague signs all over the woodland areas in my part of the country for decades.
People don’t die from it anymore because of antibiotics.
That was the part I found surprising. That somebody died from it. Maybe it wasn't diagnosed soon enough or they had comorbidities or something.
Make the plague great again!
Antibiotics are woke.. and uh.. trans! /s
Almost all rodents in the west can carry the plague. This is why you should not feed or play with squirrels and chipmunks. There’s also regular outbreaks in Madagascar.
But they're so cute 🥺
Just perfection
They're only cute and happy cuz they're INSANE
Don't give them caffeine!
Or water
Thats a little sweeping
All I see is a nice fur hat.
Okay I just jammed the feral frontiersman side of my personality back into the corner with the Norman. Anyways yes these rodents are rather cute
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Rotent
Yersinia pestis is actually super common in our groundsquirrels here in southern AZ.
My mom had Y Pestis for about 2 years. Worked in an animal shelter -- which are frequently in older buildings and store lots of kibble. No nodule presentation so it was hard to diagnose until they came to it.
2 week course of treatment.
Murican evangelists ensuring the rapture for all.
The "you do you, let me do me" doesn't hold when the "you do you" involves everybody else as well.
"I want to die, and I want you to die with me!"
At some point you need to treat them like zombies and just bring out a fucking shotgun.
I think it's well beyond time for that.