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To: Star Traveler

Is there a vaccine?


10 posted on 01/18/2009 7:35:58 PM PST by CH3CN
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Unless it’s engineered and/or weaponized, rodent traps and antibiotics.


13 posted on 01/18/2009 7:41:32 PM PST by allmost
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No vaccine, since the disease is a bacterium and not a virus.

But it can be treated with anti-biotics.


16 posted on 01/18/2009 7:43:36 PM PST by jerry557
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Is there a vaccine?

I got shots for it in the Army. I wonder how long they are good for? Anyone know?

17 posted on 01/18/2009 7:44:04 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: CH3CN
Is there a vaccine?

Don't need one. Just basic antibiotics fixes it. The southwest US is a reservoir for yersinia pestis, due to it being imported along with all the Chines railroad workers in the 19th century - the fleas carrying it infested the local rodentia, and we'll never get rid of it now. There's a case or two every year. I got curious and called the CDC in Atlanta a few years ago and they sent me a large envelope of information - several hundred pages, and I read them all. No worries.

24 posted on 01/18/2009 7:57:52 PM PST by nina0113 (Hugh Akston is my hero.)
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To: CH3CN
Yup, if caught in time.

Here is a very interesting article about occurrences in the US.

http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/SW02/80208036

57 posted on 01/18/2009 10:06:39 PM PST by Chgogal (Don't look at me. You elected them, Comrade!)
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To: CH3CN

> Is there a vaccine?
Yes there is; but since plague is bacterial and not viral, the vaccine is only effective for a short period of time, probably not more than a year ot two.
Don’t worry though, plague responds to common antibiotics.


72 posted on 01/19/2009 4:36:46 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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Antibiotics.


78 posted on 01/19/2009 5:49:48 AM PST by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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