Posted on 03/24/2020 1:22:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday. It's the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region -- in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.
The two recent patients, from the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, were diagnosed with pneumonic plague by doctors in the Chinese capital Beijing, according to state media Xinhua. They are now receiving treatment in Beijing's Chaoyang District, and authorities have implemented preventative control measures.
Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs.
Pneumonic -- the kind the Chinese patients have -- is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
During the Middle Ages, plague outbreaks devastated Europe, killing around 50 million people. Since then, we've invented antibiotics, which can treat most infections if they are caught early enough -- but the plague isn't gone. In fact, it's made a recent comeback.
From 2010 to 2015, more than 3,248 cases were reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, according to the WHO. The three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru.
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SHUT. THEM. OUT. NOW.
As I recall the pneumonic plague is not spread by fleas.
...after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy “. ...
Now that’s priceless
Maybe they were in Downtown Los Angeles recently where the Plague has been for a while now
Sure, you may get the plague, but it will give you the best erections you’ve ever had.
For some perspective.
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
In recent decades, an average of seven human plague cases have been reported each year (range: 1–17 cases per year). Plague has occurred in people of all ages (infants up to age 96), though 50% of cases occur in people ages 12–45. It occurs in both men and women, though historically is slightly more common among men, probably because of increased outdoor activities that put them at higher risk.
Well, we can cure that.....................
For 4 hours!..........................
WTF are they up to over there!?
We need to make the wall around China a LOT taller!
Even Granny Clampett would wince at cooking that up!
Possum gravy and marmot kidneys...mmmmm boy!
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
Shot of penicillin/erythromycin etc. people get it here every year. Usually transmitted by rodents/fleas. We are the progeny of survivors of the plague. We have a built in defense system
Embargo their shipping too
Rodent organs must be cooked thoroughly, don’t they know that?
The United States occasionally has a case, usually in the Southwest.
No pangolins, civets, nor bats were harmed in the development of THIS particular story!
Well, at least Granny would give her exotic meals a good boilin’ or roastin’ first! That poor couple at the tainted kidney raw!
The fleas start it by transmitting the bacteria to humans and and then it spreads from human to human via droplets if/when the infection spreads to the lungs.
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