[calex59]

we will have it in the States before long.

Suprise, We have the black death in the US, and have had it for a long time. Ask any Navajo living in the 4 corners area, or anywhere on the reservation, and you will find out that the black plaque lives and has lived for a number of years. You know, if you were to get hold of some Tony Hillerman books, you might know this already.

It comes and goes with a periodic cycle, about 11 years to the cycle.

[Mercat]

I love Tony’s books. RIP

[BlazingArizona]

Suprise, We have the black death in the US, and have had it for a long time. Ask any Navajo living in the 4 corners area,

A biologist in this state died of it last year. He caught it from handling dead animals.

[Uri’el-2012]

It comes and goes with a periodic cycle, about 11 years to the cycle.

That is a sunspot cycle.

There is also hantavirus as well.

[Myrddin]

My wife and I went camping in Idyllwild, CA before hiking up near San Jacinto mountain. In the morning we discovered signs nailed to the trees in our campsite warning of plague infected squirrels. We had just been feeding the squirrels the night before. We moved on to Lake Elsinore instead.

My wife contracted a case of "plague" from the Pasteurella pestis (aka Yersinia pestis) minor organism. Her Red Tail hawk had picked it up while hunting in the field. The hawk passed it to my wife. Both were treated and recovered. We were lucky that the veterinarian diagnosed the plague infection in time for rapid treatment. A hot strain of the "real thing" can kill in hours. Especially if passed as pneumonic plague from coughing/sputum vs rat flea bites.

[RegulatorCountry]

It comes and goes with a periodic cycle, about 11 years to the cycle.

Tied to sunspots? Min or Max?

[diamond6]

Is it curable?