Let's see. What else has been increasing in the US this year? An influx of diseased illegal aliens?
Naw...couldn't be.
Just another case of intentional obtuseness by the Feds.
“...but federal authorities have been puzzled by an increase in cases this year.”
Seriously?
Illegals don’t have anything to do with this.
Just a guess but the federal authorities are all deaf, dumb, and blind.
The plague exists in the U.S. without the help of "diseased illegal aliens". While it did come here from elsewhere, it's been here for over 100 years.
Plague is endemic in the rat population out west. We had outbreaks in California in the 1990s. They closed a state park in Tahoe because of it for awhile.
I don’t think this bubonic plague was brought here by immigrants. TB, however, is another story.
People don’t carry the plague. Probably the food supply for various rodents has been good, increasing their population, and thus the number that are infected. Same reason we get 4 Points hantavirus outbreaks.
BINGO!
When you are importing people who present with bed bugs, sexually transmitted diseases, active tuberculosis, new strains of influenza, leprosy, cholera, and plague. Many have scabies as well.
The horror show of it is that we don’t clean them up and send them home. The reality is that we send them to neighborhoods like yours and mine. Not like the ones Obama and the Congressional Democrats and Republicans inhabit.
There was, however, a great article on American Thinker titled 13 reasons why we should not admit Muslim 'refugees.
Excellent article, and has a great link to the paper about muslim inbreeding, which I had been looking for. This American Thinker article was one of the best articles on this subject.
Just about every year in Eastern Oregon, someone eats a rabbit infected with Plague.
This one is almost certainly not related to illegals (or legal immigrants, for that matter). Bubonic plague is virtually never transmitted from person-to-person.
Actually plague first came to the United States in the 1850's. The rail companies were importing Chinese Coolies to work on the transcontinental railway.
There was a small plague outbreak in San Francisco's Chinatown district. An alert doctor spotted the outbreak almost immediately, and appealed to the city council to institute a quarantine and rat catching program.
The town fathers refused to believe there was plague in their fair city.
They screwed around long enough for it to infect the local ground squirrel population where there was no hope stopping it from spreading. Thanks to their inaction, one can be exposed to plague anywhere in the western US.
Any parallels one wishes to draw with a more recent "gay plague" are left to the reader as an exercise.
Those who do not learn the lessons of the past...
From here
I have no idea what the real answer is. But I'll bet the lib's will blame at least some of it on Global Warming.
Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Climate Change. It's so hard to keep up with "settled science" these days.
Yeah! Convince me again about ‘Open Borders”.
IIRC, FR had an article about a teenaged boy having in back in the summer.
The Terrorist in Chief is importing more bad stuff every day.
I live about 30 miles north of Heppner. Not much there but a town and a whole lot of hills, valleys, and some forests. Probably picked it up from a flea or tick. Lots of mice, rats, and rabbits in that area.
Geez, all this for a case of plague? Take a look at the map in #21. New Mexico is ground zero and commonly has several cases a year in humans. The news is usually in the local news section of the ABQ Journal and not on the front page.
Some common sense precautions are all that are needed to protect yourselves — make sure pets have flea protection, treat burrows with flea powder and never pick up dead or dying rodents (e.g. ground squirrels, rabbits, etc.). Plague, if caught early, can be treated with antibiotics.
A much more dangerous and deadly disease is the hantavirus which is present in urine and feces droppings from small rodents like mice. It has no cure and death comes from respiratory failure. Local hospitals can provide supportive care but even then there is a 50% or greater chance of death.
Outbreaks are common on Native American reservations, I’ve read. Reservation doctors are familiar with it and it’s treated quickly.
Problem is when big city doctors aren’t familiar with it and don’t know what they’re dealing with.
In The Agony and the Ecstasy, author Irving Stone notes that Michelangelo contracted plague, but recovered from it, even as others were dying all around him.
Immigrants used to come for opportunity to MAKE a better life. But our welfare system has changed that to HAVE a better life ( no work except for worshipping at the feet of Democrats). We are longer the no place for independent hard working immigrants.
Immigrants used to come here to escape disease but our enviro greenies have changed that to experience all diseases. We can’t drain swamps, use DDT, thin or eliminate populations of disease infested animals, or restrict disease transmitting activities.
I sometimes apologize to my third world friends for screwing up the last great hope on Earth. Some of them think the old America still exist.