Posted on 10/30/2015 8:05:27 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
The authorities in Oregon have confirmed a case of the bubonic plague in a teenage girl who was believed to have contracted the disease from a flea bite.
Plague is rare and treatable with antibiotics if caught early, but federal authorities have been puzzled by an increase in cases this year.
In a statement, state and local health officials in Oregon said they thought the girl was infected during a hunting trip on Oct. 16 near Heppner, a city located at the foothills of the Blue Mountains in the northeastern region of the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hmmm - sure looks like the source is Mexitrash, and similar South of the Border “rats.” Unless you have visited some of these 3rd world hell holes, you cannot appreciate what a festering cauldron of disease these people live in ... Almost no personal hygiene, and there exists no sanitary practices in most of their restaurants and markets ... Many carry drug-resistant TB and hepatitis, along with lice and all manner of STDs. They are a filthy people - not all, but many.
Yikes !
It’s the first time in a long time that I’m actually glad I live in Massachusetts.
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Drug use spreads AIDS through dirty needles, and if this population gets TB, they usually do not have the self-control and sense of responsibility to take care of it. It is too expensive to keep each one of them in an isolated room and locked in. That’s how the bacteria become resistant, and then they spread in their resistant form from addict to addict.
Another link between AIDS and TB is that if you use the most common test for TB, you get a lot of false negatives, because the test involves an immune response and AIDS patients have an immune deficiency.
One more factor that makes an epidemic dangerous: TB can go dormant for many years, waiting in its little polysaccharide coating until the person’s immunity is low—from age, cancer treatment, or AIDS. Thus it can be an undetected pool in a community.
Don’t ever try to clean up a rodent-infested or previously rodent-infested barn by sweeping. You will just get all the hanta virus into the air and breathe it in. Have it done professionally by people with face masks and vacuum cleaners.
Yep. Illegals bringing all this crap in.
The rats stay away from Sacramento.
Professional courtesy....
If guns were outlawed, this wouldn't have happened./s
Hopefully the girl’s case was caught early enough for her to be treated successfully with antibiotics. I hope she is well soon.
Unfortunate that the pride of a few men had such a horrific impact.
Same as it ever was.
wouldn’t change the Times’ heading anyway :)
You asked not one question, but two:
What else has been increasing in the US this year?Implying that one has something to do with the other. FR plague threads crack me up.
An influx of diseased illegal aliens?
It comes from rodents. Here legally.
Cleaned up a garage a couple of years ago. Deer mice infested with urine stains and feces everywhere including boxes and equipment. Got myself medically cleared, fit-tested with a full-face respirator with proper cartridge, Tyvek coveralls, booties, and gloves. Got after it with a spray bottle with 10% bleach followed by use of Craftsman wet-vac with HEPA filter. Took care of the problem myself and plastic bagged lots of destroyed papers and books and took to the waste transfer station. Knew I handled it safely with no adverse effects.
I spray down the rodent droppings with bleach. I figure that should take care of any hanta virus.
I was exposed to TB as a very young child in 1937.
I still test positive when given the tine test——78 years later.
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Good if you know what you’re doing. I’m a city girl, so I would call the mouse man.
Good approach... better to be Cedar Dave than Hanta Dave.
Glad you’re still OK. It’s opportunistic, so watch for the signs. Yours is almost definitely not antibiotic-resistant so it’s easily cured if it starts up.
Thanks.
I didn’t contract the TB and neither did my brother or mother.
My father died of the disease in 1938 at age 32.
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Sorry.
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