Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.
Posted on 01/23/2016 7:57:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
Diseases eradicated here are coming back due to the illegals being allowed in.
Michelangelo caught the plague and survived it. This according to Irving Stone in The Agony and the Ecstasy.
Marseilles is, incidentally, one of the most ancient habitations in Europe. It was Greek before anything else, and as such a trade center before the Romans rose to greatness. What actually came in over these trade routes is lost in the mists of time, but these people were never isolated.
Serving in ‘Nam in 1979?
You were serving in Vietnam in 1979 ? Interesting! Must be a typo ... I would think...
You must have been serving in the Chinese Army then because those were the only foreign troops in Vietnam in 1979.
Welcome to New Mexico—Land of the Flea, Home of the Plague.
Typo
In rural parts of New Mexico. Connected to some kind of nuts at least I have read that several years ago.
Maybe some species that lives far away from people is the reservoir, and only rare extreme weather conditions drives them into proximity with people.
But the map the article shows of the spread of plague over time seems to indicate that it came in a wave from Asia Minor and in from the coasts - not springing up locally.
The Mongol empires left after their great conquests were still ruling Asia, and plague outbreaks are still common in the Summer in present-day Mongolia.
He believed that this mutation which dates back some 700 years had been caused by the plague and only occurs in those descended from certain European areas and Great Britain.
lots of people used to eat them- probably not so much anymore— We watched ‘turtle ma’ who catches animals with his bare hands- coyotes, bobcats etc- and he would catch armadillos, BUT he wore gloves and was very cautious around them
I agree with others. I suspect that pretty much everything that attacks humans today has been ‘Lurkin for many millions of years, but cannot break out unless the conditions are right, with the two key conditions being population density and sanitation. One in a while one of these microbes pops up, takes out some people, but don’t have the capability to go widespread. But if the populace is already weakened, and living tightly together, watch out.
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.
Sorry type 1970 not 1979.
Black Death is racist.
During the time of the 1348-1350 outbreak, folks were pretty unhygienic.
It was common to have farm animals living in the same hovel as people. Fleas were just a fact of life..
You’re thinking of Hanta virus. Plague here is the old fashioned variety carried by fleas from rodents. Usually a family pet gets them from a dead ground squirrel or sod poodle. Had a death a couple miles away a year or so ago.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead†ping list (formerly the “Ebola†ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead†threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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...
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