First case of deadly bubonic plague in eight years found in US - and it came from a cat

Daily Express ^ | Mon, Feb 12, 2024 | Karl Holbrook

[nickcarraway]

[Dr. Franklin]

Millions of illegals crossing the borders couldn’t have caused this? Right...

[nickcarraway]

I’ve never heard of illegals bringing it. It pops up here every once in a while - usually in the Southwest.

[crusty old prospector]

Prairie Dogs.

[Dr. Franklin]

I’ve never heard of illegals bringing it. It pops up here every once in a while - usually in the Southwest.

And the Southwest is where the illegals enter the country. I seem to remember that fleas can spread this to humans, but then they could also get it from humans.

[hardspunned]

I’m glad I found out. I’m ordering my mail in ballot now. Is there a vaxx for this? Will my crate of masks work?

[Valpal1]

Correct, yersinia pestis is endemic in many western state populations of prairie dogs, ground suirrels, chipminks, mice and rats. Anything that hunts and eats these rodents may also become infected. The fleas that reside on them are also infected.

Every few years a human cintracts it as a result of bites or scratches from an infected flea or rodent.

Been here a long time.

[NWFree]

Cat scratch fever

[nickcarraway]

It’s not near the border, it’s in remote areas. And this goes back century or more.

[nickcarraway]

When it did come, it came from China.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Depends on what is meant by “deadly”.

Bubonic plague is very much deadly as it ever was. It has to be treated.

I watch these medical shows. 1 poor kid nearly died because plague is so rare, doctors didn’t figure it out until late.

Rare stuff is dangerous, just because doctors won’t expect it.

[Revel]

“The disease regularly occurs in places with resident animal reservoirs and overlapping human populations, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru.”

Sounds about right.

[Jamestown1630]

This. It’s not foreign to the US.

[wardamneagle]

Cat....Bat.....here we go again

[Valpal1]

Plague came to America in 1900 on rats from steamships from China and spread to US rodent populations of the American West.

It particularly thrives in prarie dog and ground squirrel populations.

[Valpal1]

I always wonder why it doesn’t occur in Portland which is like freaking flea central. It seems to prefer rodents in dryer climates of the arid and semi arid parts of the west.

[Dr. Franklin]

It’s not near the border, it’s in remote areas. And this goes back century or more.

Millions of illegals eating varmints for food and living in flea bag hotels sounds like it could spread many diseases including Bubonic Plague.

[EinNYC]

I’ve never heard of illegals bringing it. It pops up here every once in a while - usually in the Southwest.

Yes, but I just read a news story about how the illegal criminal trash has been leaving their poor DOGS at the border to starve. Why on earth they would bring their faithful pooches to a foreign country and think they could bring them in is a level of stupid I have rarely encountered. But the point is, those dogs are surely carrying fleas and therefore could be a vector for U.S. kitties to have bubonic infected fleas. Just another reason to close the border, El Retardo.

[mass55th]

"And the Southwest is where the illegals enter the country. I seem to remember that fleas can spread this to humans, but then they could also get it from humans."

It's been proven that human lice are plague carriers.

[Dr. Franklin]

It's been proven that human lice are plague carriers.

And Bedbugs are a kind of louse. There is an explanation.