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Bubonic plague found in six dead squirrels near downtown Denver
Examiner ^
| April 27, 2007
Posted on 05/01/2007 7:22:29 AM PDT by NYer
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:22:32 AM PDT
by
NYer
To: NYer
Biological weapons of mass destruction??
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:25:52 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:26:59 AM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: pandoraou812
Yeah, bubonic plague must have fallen down from a couple of bad acorns...
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:29:09 AM PDT
by
deathrace2000
("I regret that I have but one life to give for my country", Nathan Hale before execution.)
To: NYer
Tree squirrels, that's interesting. In the middle ages the flea carrier was the common
rattus rattus. The rats thrived in the thatched roofs, open sewer systems, no garbage control, etc. of those times. Nevertheless, we don't want to see it again; it brings back memories of when a third of Europe died from the Black (bubonic) plague.
The only thing similar in modern times was the "Spanish" influenza during and after WWI when many more people died of the flu than they did because of the war.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:30:05 AM PDT
by
xJones
To: pillut48
Biological weapons of mass destruction??That's a thought worth considering, but I would be skeptical. Plague has been around since before Mohamed was molesting children.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:30:35 AM PDT
by
jammer
To: NYer
I’ve never seen a squirrel cough; but I’ve seen a bar fly.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:31:48 AM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
To: NYer
The last couple of years there has been a lot of plague in prairie dogs, so this doesn’t surprise me much.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:32:45 AM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: jammer
Experts say it is unusual to find the disease in the center of a city. 'Nuff said. I'm off to see how Reynolds stock is doing...
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:32:50 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
To: NYer
I’m sure this happens occasionally and is no real cause for alarm. Anyone who has been to the Garden of the Gods has seen the park signs warning visitors not to touch the live animals due to plague risks.
As the article says, the plague has been known to exist in Colorado for over 50 years.
To: pillut48
Plague has been in this country for a long time. It is actually heaviest through out Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. They typically find it in Prarie Dogs. It comes and goes, some years no sign of it and other years heavy prarie dog die offs from it. They believe there are colonies of prarie dog carriers that show no sign of the disease for years and then suddenly it breaks out. It is nothing to get alarmed about as this has been going on for at least 50 years and they stay on top of it.
Very doubtful any mass spreading of plague is going on by terrorists although after your post one of them may have gotten a new idea!
Which brings up another thought, I wonder if terrorists monitor this web site?
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:33:59 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: NYer
“Just another isolated incident.”
“Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.”
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:34:08 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, now fighting for freedom, on duty in Iraq)
To: redgolum
Yeap. If the idiots around here wouldn’t insist on gobbling up land to preserve the prairie dog populations (over population), this wouldn’t be happening.
Brought it on themselves. When I moved here from NM, I was shocked they actually had public land set aside for the rodents. Had they never heard of the plague?
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:34:26 AM PDT
by
ican'tbelieveit
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
To: pillut48
In related news, political pundits are referring to the recent Democratic debate as the Boobonic Plague....
To: calex59
Which brings up another thought, I wonder if terrorists monitor this web site? But of course they do! Terrorists are very computer savvy and know their way around the internet. They would know that FR is THE place to come for current, up to the minute info on any and all news stories!! Truthfully, I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that some of them actually post here.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:36:45 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
To: NYer
“Cats were the main victims.”
Well, at least there’s some good news!
**put’s on flameproof suit, ducks and runs**
To: Lizavetta
In related news, political pundits are referring to the recent Democratic debate as the Boobonic Plague....You should be ashamed (cough, cough). I'd cyber-slap you if I wasn't laughing so hard.:)
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:40:45 AM PDT
by
xJones
To: NYer
This is another reason that I boycott denver.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:42:08 AM PDT
by
mountainlyons
(Hard core conservative)
To: NYer
"But I'm not dead, yet!"
"Well, you will be soon!"
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:42:16 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(If you're conservative, then support a conservative candidate like Duncan Hunter for POTUS.)
To: NYer
The Black Plague appears to have originated in Central America, spread to Iceland through trade, and then to Europe a year later, and eventually arrived in China. This of course is the opposite direction from what is taught in Gummint school as well as before the official date of discovery of America. Bubonic plague is still in America, which is where it always was.
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posted on
05/01/2007 7:46:50 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
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