Millions of illegals crossing the borders couldn’t have caused this? Right...
I’ve never heard of illegals bringing it. It pops up here every once in a while - usually in the Southwest.
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?
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.
“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.
The good news is it wasn’t the pneumonic form of it.