[airborne]

I wonder if the patient is from another country.

It would be a good way to send biological weapons into America.

[Varda]

There have been Pneumonic plague cases in the southwest for many years. The cases I read about were from people handling animals that had the disease.

[V_TWIN]

“I wonder if the patient is from another country”

Since the patient is “unidentified” it’s either an illegal or someone here caught it from an illegal.....more than likely the former.

[dljordan]

“I wonder if the patient is from another country.”

It’s out here in the West. Prairie dogs carry it.

[normbal]

https://www.azcommerce.com/a/profiles/ViewProfile/4/Coconino+County/

in some ways this part of Arizona IS “another country.”

Wondering if the patient was from one of the nations or just got flea bit a while ago and didn’t think twice about the golfball -sized lymph nodes in his/her groin until it was too late.

I saw a grunt (11B) once while doing an internal medicine rotation at Ft. Ord back in the late 80’s who contracted YP/Bubonic Plague while walking around barefoot at Camp Roberts down by Paso Robles/Ft. Hunter Maggot (I say that with all due affection - I was stationed there once for a year, best time ever).

Thinking was he got a flea bite from one of the bizillions that inhabit the area catching a ride and feeding off the ground squirrels there. IIRC a little doxycycline took care of him and he was out of the hospital in a few days.

To think of how much time I spent hiking Los Padres Nat’l Forest, camping, hanging out at Lake San Antonio… the plague, while endemic, isn’t very prevalent nor often contracted. A quick websearch says there’s an average of SEVEN cases a year in the US, about the same number nearly 40 years ago.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Already in America for at least 150 years.

Brought in from China. Like most bad things.

[mewzilla]

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

Per the above, FWIW, The US has a few cases annually.

[MotorCityBuck]

No.
It’s the Deep State !!!😄