[nickcarraway]

Posting now due to recent events.

[ealgeone]

SHUT. THEM. OUT. NOW.

[tet68]

As I recall the pneumonic plague is not spread by fleas.

[jcon40]

...after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy “. ...

Now that’s priceless

[eyeamok]

Maybe they were in Downtown Los Angeles recently where the Plague has been for a while now

[PGR88]

a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy

Sure, you may get the plague, but it will give you the best erections you’ve ever had.

[abb]

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.

[Red Badger]

Well, we can cure that.....................

[AnotherUnixGeek]

a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local folk health remedy.

I'm all for people being allowed to live and eat as they please, but with today's open border elite insisting that anyone should be able to fly anywhere without restriction, the world needs to insist that China reforms its "local folk health remedy" nonsense. If people from China expect to fly to Seattle, SF or LA, they need to stop eating wild animals in unsafe, unclean conditions. First the new coronavirus, brought to us via pangolins and bats, now this.

[Bobalu]

WTF are they up to over there!?

We need to make the wall around China a LOT taller!

[SkyDancer]

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

[Vaquero]

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

[SMARTY]

Embargo their shipping too

[BradyLS]

No pangolins, civets, nor bats were harmed in the development of THIS particular story!

[catnipman]

“Two People Just Got the Plague in China — Yes, the Black Death Plague (November 2019)”

so what? several people get the plague in Colorado every year when they stupidly let their dogs romp through infected colonies of prairie dogs, plus plague is easily treatable with Streptomycin ...

both CNN and you have totally failed at this new attempt at fostering even more pointless panic and paranoia than already exists ...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

China, the gift that keeps on giving …

[discostu]

People get the plague here too. About a dozen a year.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, man, first they take away my bat soup and now it’s my marmot kidney sashimi. What next?

[ripnbang]

There are plague cases in our country every year.

[familyop]

Many have caught it in the U.S., too, over the past 20 years. It lives in populations of prairie dogs and some of the other rodents.

[familyop]

Plague is not hard to avoid, BTW, in areas that don’t have many fleas, even if dealing directly with pests like prairie dogs. Hantavirus is worse.