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

[mass55th]

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

Yep. Parasites.

[Valpal1]

Fun facts: lice are species specific. Human head lice feed only on humans, so can only spread plague by first being infected by a human. So lice can’t start a plague epidemic on their own.

And bed bugs have been around for thousands of years and have never been known to transmit any disease to humans ever.

Rodents and fleas however are noth famous for being noxious spreaders of disease, especially yersinia pestis.

[Dr. Franklin]

Fun facts: lice are species specific. Human head lice feed only on humans, so can only spread plague by first being infected by a human. So lice can’t start a plague epidemic on their own.

Cram a hundred humans into a trailer rig. All it takes is one human with a disease like Bubonic Plague and one head louse jumping around to spread the disease.

And bed bugs have been around for thousands of years and have never been known to transmit any disease to humans ever.

Lice were known to transmit Trench Fever. Why can't they spread plague?

[yldstrk]

Bubonic plague comes from rats, not cats.

[mewzilla]

Cats are a vector. That being said, they are one of many.

BYW, ours isn't the only Deep State with a mad-on for cats.

Recently appeared in the UK's Daily Mail, on the so-called Alaskapox...

How your pet CAT is a major harborer of deadly diseases - after felines were blamed for first Alaskapox death and return of ancient plague

[mewzilla]

If you'd like to geek out, your answer may be found here...

A refined model of how Yersinia pestis produces a transmissible infection in its flea vector

Ick.

[mewzilla]

Oh, and it turns out Alaskapox is some new orthopox virus. And gee, there have been a number of novel orthopox viruses appearing on the scene the last few years.

Hmmmmm....

From 1998...

Naturally Occurring Orthopoxviruses: Potential for Recombination with Vaccine Vectors

Conspiracy theory...

...or spoiler?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I was young we had a farm in NE New Mexico. We left there in 1052. On a visit back in 1985 I noticed the place had been taken over by Prairie Dogs.
A few years later I noticed a plague warning on a map right over that spot.
From what I have read in the past, the Americas were plague free until Chinese were brought in for laborers. When plague broke out in China Town in San Francisco the City Fathers refused to do anything about it and allowed it to spread.

[curious7]

The good news is it wasn’t the pneumonic form of it.

[Valpal1]

Because they don’t. Not every insect can be a vector.

[Valpal1]

US kiities are far mor likely to get plague from the rodents they hunt than from a dog.

[Dr. Franklin]

If you'd like to geek out, your answer may be found here...
A refined model of how Yersinia pestis produces a transmissible infection in its flea vector Ick.

Asserting that fleas spread plague doesn't prove that lice don't. Lice are known to spread disease:
Trench fever