Posted on 07/11/2014 10:04:48 AM PDT by george76
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment laboratory yesterday [8 Jul 2014] identified pneumonic plague in a Colorado resident. Investigation revealed the family dog had recently died unexpectedly. The carcass was recovered and tested at the Colorado State University Veterinarian Diagnostic Laboratory, where tests were positive for plague.
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Even though it doesn't kill people in large numbers like it once did, it is a serious disease
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There are 3 types of plague; all can be potentially deadly, if not treated. The 1st is bubonic, which causes lymph nodes to swell. There is also septicemic, which comes about when the plague gets into the bloodstream. Finally, there is pneumonic, which is the kind the patient in Colorado has. Doctors said it can be especially worrisome. "It's a type of pneumonia," Dr. John said. "It can be spread from person to person, and that's what makes it kind of scary and kind of dangerous."
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Plague often is identified when there is an unusual die-off of prairie dogs in an area. When an infected animal dies, the fleas leave the carcass to find another host, thus spreading the disease
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Most cases of _Yersinia pestis_ infections in the USA are reported from the 4 Corners area of the USA where the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico come together.
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I’m sure it must be tourists from Iceland or Japan who are bringing these strange diseases. Yeah, that’s it./sarcasm
No one is bringing the plague to CO, NM etc. It has been here all along.
/johnny
Adams county; part of Denver metro.
The plague is still a problem in the western states. Rodents (protected by the government no less, go figure), are carriers of the fleas that transmit the disease. The number of cases are nowhere near the dark ages levels though.
Perhaps it’s in their pot!
So we think. Most of us don't have roads yet.
As if the existing propaganda wasn't enough...
Kind of ?
The dark ages didn’t have anti-biotics. Today, we do...at least for a while, yet.
Is this a case of The Guats?
And the libtard idiots in Boulder pass laws protecting prairie dogs.
Prairie dogs infested with bubonic plague.
Every animal, bird, or insect on the planet carry’s some kind of disease. So we should wipe out all life on earth?
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