Posted on 04/18/2006 8:54:50 PM PDT by berilhertz
A woman was hospitalized earlier this month with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades, health officials said Tuesday.
The woman, who was not identified, was admitted April 13 with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. A blood test confirmed she had contracted the bacterial disease. The woman was placed on antibiotics and is in stable condition, officials said.
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True - lately the numbers have been ticking down from the 90's and the 80's. I used the 10 - 20 cases figure as a watermark for the posters that react with the heebie jeebies when they hear about a disease they know nothing about. And yes - "heebie jeebie" is a scientific term ( smirk )!
LOL
I actually met her once. She didn't seem any more tightly-wrapped in person than she does in front of a camera!
Bug bombs by comparison to ER hospital bills (for the plague) or doctor office visits are a LOT cheaper! ;-)
We can eventually look forward to outbreaks of tuberculosis, smallpox, and the whole nine yards.
You are correct, my two neighbors that are both nurses and confronting the problem of diseases among the illegal immigrant community are wrong.
So glad to have run into such an intellegent person here on FR.
Not to worry as I am pretty sure I heard somewhere JACK
BAUER is already working this case.
I know it doesn't fit in with your little template but Bubonic Plague has been in the USA since the days when we were the third world country.
Oh great, another dumbass sheep who believes everything he reads in the press reports without thinking.
Try picking up a history book at some point. You can learn all sorts of interesting things. Like there was a Bubonic Plague outbreak in San Francisco in 1900.
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