Posted on 07/12/2025 11:36:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The unidentified patient, from Coconino County, showed up to the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and died there the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare said in a statement. It is unclear when the death occurred.
The hospital noted that "appropriate initial management" and "attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation" was performed, but "the patient did not recover."
Rapid diagnostic testing led to a presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis.
Coconino County Health and Human Services said testing results confirmed Friday that the patient died from pneumonic plague, described as “a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.”
This marked the first recorded death from pneumonic plague in the county since 2007, when an individual had an interaction with a dead animal infected with the disease, according to county officials.
The most common forms of plague are bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Pneumonic plague "develops when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with untreated bubonic or septicemic plague, or when a person inhales infectious droplets coughed out by another person or animal with pneumonic plague," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Also have the same in parts of California, it’s summer and the rodents and fleas are active. We have this happen every year, you have to be aware of the risks of the areas you go to and take proper precautions like don’t get chummy with the squirrels and make sure you don’t have rodent infections.
i REMEMBER ABOUT 30 or 40 years ago when animal rights groups were screaming about prairie dogs going extinct. I went by our old place in NE NM and it was covered with prairie dog mounds.
Wasn’t it the “pink mist” folks that had them all wee-weed up?
I believe it was. Pink mist! Do you remember an anti-hunting TV program from fifty five or so years ago called “Say Goodby” about hunting.
It showed the vaporizing of prairie dogs using a 30-30 rifle.
Pfizer has a vaccine for that...coming soon to a hospital near you.
No, I don’t think so. Must have been hard to get within 2 feet of a prairie dog, though. Actually, i remember stopping at a few prairie dog towns while traveling. You can get pretty close, If you’re feeding them. i do remember “Bless the Beasts and Cbildren.”
I know. I read the article.
Mask up if someone with plague is sneezing on you. I don’t doubt that THIS stuff is real, versus the load of cr@p we were sold via Brandon to STEAL AN ELECTION.
Shut down the WORLD? Sure. No problem. *SPIT*
Also, mask up if someone is spitting on you. ;)
LOVE that movie. So creative. And the soundtrack is superb; this Yankee loves her some Bluegrass!
Then you’d Love “Cold Mountain” !!!
I’ve about Worn my DVD Out !
Alison Krause...
Super!
Greetings FROM the Four Corners.
It’s a hot dry desert here. I’d rather be here than anywhere else.
Greetings from the woods northeast of Hershey PA.
It’s been typical weather here.
Hazy, Hot and humid!
But I love my little acre of land with a trout stream in my back yard, along with the deer and turkey.
Thanks for checking in FRiend!
Thanks for saying hi. 👋 😎👍😁
Glad you have a nice place. 😁
Ord in 89-90 until I ETS’d. Been to hungry lizard.
DAT. Haven’t heard that in years. I was a crew chief.
No.
It’s the Deep State !!!😄
DATs and crunchies.
I’d be more worried about outbreaks of TB brought by the hoards of unscreened illegals flown all over the country by the Biden administration.
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