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First case of deadly bubonic plague in eight years found in US - and it came from a cat
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| Mon, Feb 12, 2024
| Karl Holbrook
Posted on 02/12/2024 7:16:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Dr. Franklin
"And Bedbugs are a kind of louse. There is an explanation."
Yep. Parasites.
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posted on
02/12/2024 9:44:12 PM PST
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: 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.
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.
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posted on
02/12/2024 9:50:46 PM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: 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.
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?
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posted on
02/12/2024 10:33:57 PM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: nickcarraway
Bubonic plague comes from rats, not cats.
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posted on
02/13/2024 5:00:43 AM PST
by
yldstrk
To: yldstrk
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posted on
02/13/2024 5:09:40 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: Dr. Franklin
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posted on
02/13/2024 5:22:30 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: mewzilla; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long
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posted on
02/13/2024 5:36:30 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Never give up; never surrender!)
To: crusty old prospector
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.
The good news is it wasn’t the pneumonic form of it.
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posted on
02/13/2024 7:20:04 AM PST
by
curious7
To: Dr. Franklin
Because they don’t. Not every insect can be a vector.
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posted on
02/13/2024 7:59:33 AM PST
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Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: EinNYC
US kiities are far mor likely to get plague from the rodents they hunt than from a dog.
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posted on
02/13/2024 8:08:26 AM PST
by
Valpal1
(Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
To: 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. Asserting that fleas spread plague doesn't prove that lice don't. Lice are known to spread disease:
Trench fever
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posted on
02/13/2024 12:08:02 PM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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