“Two people in China were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague...”
This is very bad news, if true. Plague is usually transmitted by flea bites, and has a relatively long incubation period, which makes it possible to treat and cure. That’s why the plague cases in the U.S. are of little concern to the general population.
Pneumonic plague can be spread from person to person via airborne bacteria in sputum. It has a short incubation and can cause rapid death, even before a correct diagnosis is made.
The location of these two cases is also worrisome, as the Black Death likely came from there along the Silk Road. In addition, due to the population density of the poor countries in the region, a pneumonic plague outbreak would be hard to control. I hope the Chicoms are all over this.
I thought we got rid of this crap...
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No. We legalized crap. In public. And urine. Get used to such headlines.
WOW! 48 bottles!
Chinese Communists live like pigs in their own filth. Why do you think most exotic pig-bird-human flus come from the region?
Plague, schmague. No big deal. Eat some moldy bread and be done with it.
Even though it is only two deaths in Mongolia, I will have to cancel my tour of the yurts and yak herds.
Wasn’t China the origin of the Black Death the first time around?