This was the first recorded death from the disease in the county since 2007
… 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.
Well… some areas of America are.
Federally
There are three types of black death :
Bubonic plague, you get in glands in your armpits - rarely fatal nowadays.
Pneumonic plague in your lungs, which can be fatal if not treated early.
Haemhorragic plague in the brain, which is almost always fatal. Its only painful for a day, then you don’t notice it. 40 days later, your brain literally explodes.
Yeah jt stopped being a problem because it’s an easy bacteria
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.
Just don’t fight with lions and you’ll be fine.
What if they start it?
No idea, ask your lawyer.
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.
The plague is still around. Black-tailed prairie dogs can carry it in the US.
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
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
They’re only cute and happy cuz they’re INSANE
Don’t give them caffeine!
Or water
Thats a little sweeping
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.
Yersinia pestis is actually super common in our groundsquirrels here in southern AZ.
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.
