oh ffs, now the plague is making a comeback

[butters]

wonderful

Plague has made a recent comeback. Having caused close to 50,000 human cases during the last two decades, it is now categorized by World Health Organization as a re-emerging disease. Worse, the bacterium causing plague, if converted into an aerosolized form, is considered one of the most likely biothreats and is classified as such by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Plague occurs naturally in the western United States, particularly Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico, where an average of seven human plague cases are reported each year to the CDC.

Plague is found on all continents, except Oceania, according to World Health Organization. Though epidemics have occurred in Africa, Asia, and South America, most human cases since the 1990s have occurred in Africa. Today, the three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Peru.
In Madagascar, bubonic plague cases are reported nearly every year during the epidemic season, between September and April.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/heal...-trnd/index.html?cid=web-alerts&nsid=10424951

 

[Matthew Craig]

Diseases have a right to live too.

 

[beew]

wonderful


Today, the three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Peru.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/heal...-trnd/index.html?cid=web-alerts&nsid=10424951

Aah, that's why you, a Brit, are so keen on illegal immigration to the States.

 

[doowdniw]

Can't come back - it never left. Just been sleeping quietly with an occasional twitch.

 

[Rightguide]

Just the other day two people in Mongolia died of the plague because they were dumb enough to eat raw Marmot.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ple-die-of-bubonic-plague-after-eating-marmot

 

[GiaCat]

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up


"As a consequence of permafrost melting, the vectors of deadly infections of the 18th and 19th Centuries may come back, especially near the cemeteries where the victims of these infections were buried."

 

[Jada59]

They shouldn't have eaten Marmot. Ick.

 

[runsilent]

We need a good plague.There are just to many of us.

 

[Kantarii]

Lots of rats living in California these days.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Denigrating the US again?



Do you really want to be a citizen or just a critic from afar?

 

[oralaccents]

"Where would we be without Butthurt to C&P the News for us?"

~overheard in the Literotica Executive Washroom

 

[ryan8558]

We need a good plague.There are just to many of us.

Are you volunteering?

"Where would we be without Butthurt to C&P the News for us?"

~overheard in the Literotica Executive Washroom

How long did it take you to clean it this time?

 

[silver gurl]

Just the other day two people in Mongolia died of the plague because they were dumb enough to eat raw Marmot.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ple-die-of-bubonic-plague-after-eating-marmot

I read that. WTH?

 

[Rightguide]

I read that. WTH?

Maybe out on the Steppes without flint and steel and had to go stone cold rare or starve.

I probably would have tried the grass instead.

 

[butters]

it's considered a folk cure/supplement thing to give the taker good health. unfortunately, if your marmot has the plague, maybe not so wise.

from the initial link i provided:

A local folk remedy thought to provide good health had the opposite effect for one Mongolian couple: After eating the raw kidney of a marmot, the pair died of bubonic plague, AFP news agency reported on Monday. Health authorities responded by declaring a quarantine that included locals and foreign tourists who had come into contact with the couple.

 

[Rightguide]

Lots of rats living in California these days.

Los Angeles, Typhus Central.

 

[Dribble]

If I remember correctly, several Appalachian Trail hikers got it a few years ago. They slept in the shelters on the trail....so do the mice. Usually rain helps mitigate the issue, but it was a dry year