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Arizona patient dies in emergency room from plague
NBC ^ | July 11, 2025, | Marlene Lenthang

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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1 posted on 07/12/2025 11:36:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah. Ya probably DON’T want that! Everyone? Get your masks back on!

(NEVER AGAIN!)


2 posted on 07/12/2025 11:38:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if the patient is from another country.

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


3 posted on 07/12/2025 11:39:03 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: BenLurkin

Author completely ignores the important aspect of what nationality this person was and from what country they came from? Just arrived? Legal or illegal?


4 posted on 07/12/2025 11:42:26 AM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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To: BenLurkin

In AZ, we have plague, Hanta virus and Valley fever. They all leave scars on your lungs.


5 posted on 07/12/2025 11:43:12 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91. )
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t penicillilan or other anti-biotics effective against plague.


6 posted on 07/12/2025 11:43:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: airborne
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.
7 posted on 07/12/2025 11:46:21 AM PDT by Varda
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To: airborne

“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.


8 posted on 07/12/2025 11:47:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: airborne

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

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


9 posted on 07/12/2025 11:48:53 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: DallasBiff

If treated early, yes


10 posted on 07/12/2025 11:54:30 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: airborne

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.


11 posted on 07/12/2025 11:55:22 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: BenLurkin

The word “plague” can be used to describe any devastating epidemic or pestilence or sometimes a calamity that is not a disease.

The plague disease commonly referred to as bubonic plague or The Black Death (the one that killed perhaps 50% of Europe’s 14th century population) is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. That is the plague referenced in the article.


12 posted on 07/12/2025 11:56:25 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: BenLurkin

What has the hospital and or authorities done to do their best to stop widespread contamination of this plague? Have they asked for the person(s) who brought this individual to the hospital to quarantine along with any others who came in contact with him/her? As per recommendations that all infected are to be isolated from others?


13 posted on 07/12/2025 11:57:44 AM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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To: airborne
Already in America for at least 150 years.

Brought in from China. Like most bad things.

14 posted on 07/12/2025 11:59:52 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: BenLurkin

Import the Third World, become the Third World.


15 posted on 07/12/2025 11:59:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

We Pure Bloods dodged it once and
That has left Permanent damage.
.
I’m in Yavapai county and
I Refuse to bye into any
Fear.


16 posted on 07/12/2025 12:00:34 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: dljordan

I know the prairie dogs and ground squirrels are vectors for bubonic plague. Are they a factor in pneumonic plague, as well?


17 posted on 07/12/2025 12:01:36 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Big Red Badger

Agreed. Good for you!


18 posted on 07/12/2025 12:03:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: normbal

For the record, I was 11 Bravo - just jumped before we “humped”!


19 posted on 07/12/2025 12:04:34 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: DallasBiff

Yes, antibiotics cure bubonic plague.

This is why the cabal can never use it against us in a biological fashion.

Just like they did with “covid,” they can only use fear of the disease against us.


20 posted on 07/12/2025 12:06:42 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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