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New Mexico boy dies of plague, sister recovering
Associated Press ^ | June 4, 2009 | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN,

Posted on 06/04/2009 6:38:08 PM PDT by george76

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To: muawiyah
...That one doggone near erradicated humanity from the Americas!

Are you referring to this?

21 posted on 06/04/2009 7:50:03 PM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: Seven plus One
Yup. There was a similar occurrence in the Andes, and by the time white folk traversed the big swamps in the middle of South America on their way East to the coast virtually all the native people had died in a massive calamity, presumably plague.

There's a couple of recent books about that trip. Try Gaspar de Carvajal.

22 posted on 06/04/2009 8:02:35 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: george76

Santa Fe County. RIP.


23 posted on 06/04/2009 8:36:36 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Travis McGee; Tijeras_Slim
I'm thinkin twice now bout usin slims collection of road kill recipes. Hunta virus hash was his best !!!
24 posted on 06/04/2009 10:09:23 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Courtesy,no doubt,of those dirty Norwegian illegals.

I lived in Albuquerque in the late fifties on Sandia Base. We had reports of bubonic plague every spring, and we kids were warned to keep clear of any cute bunnies we encountered in the area.

25 posted on 06/04/2009 10:25:43 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: Squantos; Travis McGee

Have to go back to roadrunner on a stick.


26 posted on 06/05/2009 5:42:08 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Travis McGee

There was a veterinarian in Arizona a few years ago who caught tularemia (probably while rabbit-hunting) and died of it.

Ironic in that being a veterinarian, he should have known about it.


27 posted on 06/05/2009 5:42:12 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: sockmonkey

That was probably a very cool time to be at Sandia. And yes, the critters are still out and about. I was out by the rocket sled track just the other day.


28 posted on 06/05/2009 5:43:48 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
That was probably a very cool time to be at Sandia.

Once a month we'd have to take our food in a lead box, and all convoy out into the desert somewhere for our worst case scenario practice.

For cheap entertainment, I remember they'd give us kids geiger counters, and set us loose on a big pile of rocks. We were supposed to pick out the ones that made the geiger counter do a continuous click/buzz.

And I think the movie theater on base was about fifteen cents. Saturday was when you'd see the next installment of hop a long Cassidy or some cowboy, and some movie tone news thing before the regular feature.

LOL, I didn't even think about it, but you could ride your bikes to the movie theater on base, and you didn't have to worry anyone was going to steal it. It really was a whole different world back then..The films they'd show us at school, assuring us if we got nuked, we'd all be okay if we put our heads under our desks, and drank water from the toilet tank, and ate our lead box food.

We were living there when some reporter flew over Monsanto Mtn, and did some expose about the "hollowed out mountain". I remember all the adults being very mad about that.

29 posted on 06/05/2009 8:39:58 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: george76
Modern antibiotics are an effective treatment.

If they're given in time, yes. This little bugger actually attacks the immune system (phagocytes, specifically) and other defenses, fever, tend to run away on you.

Yersinia pestis actually was introduced to this country by illegal immigrants. Chinese. In 19th century San Francisco. Since then North America has been the second of the plague reservoirs, Central Asia being the original.

Don't pet dead animals and you'll be fine. Prairie-dog-on-a-stick is probably off the menu. Sorry.

30 posted on 06/05/2009 8:55:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Tijeras_Slim

1972 model with the 440 was cool !!!


31 posted on 06/05/2009 2:46:31 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: LegendHasIt; Rogle; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

NM list PING!


32 posted on 06/06/2009 11:52:56 AM PDT by CedarDave (Not new news: Obama has Pork Flu)
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To: Travis McGee
... those fleas are just waiting for the next warm host to jump onto.

Which is why the good people in NW Colorado have been on a search and destroy mission against ground squirrels, ferrets, prairie dogs, jack rabbits, and other assorted vermin for over a century. Also one reason - the other being tularemia - one should wait until after a good hard frost to hunt bunnies. Cut down on the incidence of plague and produced a great population of long distance shooters.

Now the USFWS and other urban do-gooders have introduced a population of protected ferrets and are talking about protecting some species of ground squirrel.

33 posted on 06/06/2009 12:31:18 PM PDT by kitchen (One battle rifle for each person, and a spare for each pair.)
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To: kitchen

What morons!


34 posted on 06/06/2009 3:52:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: okie01
Absolutely. The Plague in NM has nothing to do w/human migration, illegal or otherwise. It's been there longer than any humans have.

The area around the small town of Tesuque, NM (about 5 miles north of Santa Fe) is considered by epidemiologists to be the global epicenter of Bubonic Plague.

Fortunately, it's generally isolated to infected fleas on rodents (Rabbits, Kangaroo Rats, Rocky Mountain Ground Squirrels [often mistaken for a small Chipmunk], and Deer Mice), and pretty much only crosses species when humans make the mistake of messing with fleabitten (hence the term) carriers.

A big problem occurs when someone gets it, and then travels somewhere else where the doctors aren't familiar with it and then dies before the proper diagnosis is made in time (as happened to a hiker from Boston years ago). If they're in a major population center, and the disease goes “pneumonic”, and can be transmitted from human to human by aspiration, then it's big trouble.

The fleas will jump off in swarms when their rodent host dies, and are attracted to the nearest warm-blooded creature. If you're close enough to see that happen, you're too close for your own good. I learned as a little boy in Northern NM not to ever, ever, ever handle any wild rodent in any way. Never have, never will. Not even cute little bunnies that would fit nicely in my crock pot. A classmate of mine got it and survived - messing with a “Chipmunk”. She's lucky.

One of my parent's friends was denied a visa to Egypt because his passport home of record was Tesuque, NM, and somehow the Egyptian health authorities knew about the implications.

35 posted on 06/08/2009 1:27:13 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: CedarDave

NM news reporting a 3rd case. I think it might be a rough year for hanta virus too; we have been pretty wet, lots of mice upcoming.


36 posted on 06/10/2009 7:14:38 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

This article of a New Mexico boy who died of the bubonic plague may be of interest to Smokin’ Joe ping list .


37 posted on 08/03/2009 8:01:05 AM PDT by DvdMom
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To: george76

I thought I read of something about plague related deaths in China as well, but I don’t recall where I read it.


38 posted on 08/03/2009 9:27:10 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Plague is endemic in the animal population (mostly rodents) in New Mexico there are usually a few cases every year and have been for a long time.


39 posted on 10/06/2022 10:11:19 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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