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Plague cases from fleas confirmed in Colorado, including 10-year-old death
New York Post ^ | July 22, 2021 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 07/22/2021 11:01:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Cases of plague have been confirmed in animals and fleas in six counties in Colorado — including where a 10-year-old girl died earlier this month after suffering plague-like symptoms, according to a report.

Lab tests confirmed the disease in fleas in La Plata County, where the tragic girl lived, according to CBS 4 Denver.

Plague was also detected in San Miguel, El Paso, Boulder, Huerfano and Adams counties, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment told the outlet.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: ague; colorado; p
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1 posted on 07/22/2021 11:01:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ain’t illegal immigration grand?


2 posted on 07/22/2021 11:05:53 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

Actually, that area of the US has been a known plague reservoir for the past century. Nothing to do with illegal immigration; the Four Corners area just has it due to the native rodent populations.

Now, the dengue and more exotic diseases starting to appear in the US *are* the result of illegal immigration and should be looked at...


3 posted on 07/22/2021 11:11:24 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: metmom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Four_Corners_hantavirus_outbreak

“Plague is endemic to the area.” And so are all the other fun viruses and diseases that are rodent borne.


4 posted on 07/22/2021 11:12:43 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: metmom

Huh? Plague is endemic to the American southwest and frontal range of the Rockies. The reservoir for the hosts are small mammals in that region where the fleas live on them. Prairie dogs, chipmunks, skunks being the main vector for plague fleas. Illegal immigrants had zero to do with plague that has been in that region for at least ten thousand years there is fossil evidence of human plague deaths in native Americans.


5 posted on 07/22/2021 11:13:39 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Spktyr

I see.

Thanks for the info.


6 posted on 07/22/2021 11:13:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

No, plague pops up there from time to time. I don’t remember it happening in Mexico.


7 posted on 07/22/2021 11:18:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Mexico has other plagues, just not THE plague. :P


8 posted on 07/22/2021 11:20:39 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: metmom

No problem. As much fun as it can be to blame illegal immigration for every disease, it’s usually a good idea to check if that’s the actual cause first, or if it is something native to an area.

FYI, there are a LOT of diseases endemic to specific parts of the US, and I don’t mean diseases like Trump Derangement Syndrome or liberalism. All the rodent-borne stuff in the Four Corners area, the Southeast has outbreaks of cholera and giardia and all kinds of fun swamp diseases... The list goes on and on. We just don’t need *additional* imported diseases.


9 posted on 07/22/2021 11:27:18 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: nickcarraway

Good Lord! The Biden Administration MUST give Pfizer a massive grant to develop a vaccine with due haste! It MUST be rolled out and mandatory for anyone who might possibly be living near a rodent, or where a rodent might have been in the past 30 days. We’re all in this together!


10 posted on 07/22/2021 11:56:06 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: metmom; null and void

Time for the bring out yer dead thing.


11 posted on 07/23/2021 12:25:43 AM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: nickcarraway

Covid, monkeypox, plague ... aren’t Democrats great?


12 posted on 07/23/2021 12:36:05 AM PDT by Skepolitic ( )
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To: nickcarraway

In unusually dry weather, the rodents head into town looking for water.


13 posted on 07/23/2021 2:40:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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With rattle snakes close behind.


14 posted on 07/23/2021 3:05:24 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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Nature, and all that. Mind your step.


15 posted on 07/23/2021 3:08:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I found that yelling at my screen did not effect the change I sought.)
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To: nickcarraway

“...where the tragic girl lived”

Had to jam that action packed comic book adjective in there somehow.


16 posted on 07/23/2021 4:09:48 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Tax-chick

Cats. Nature’s rodent hunter


17 posted on 07/23/2021 4:12:18 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Spktyr

If you look at a map of bubonic plague areas, Madagascar’s continues to have cases, so many that scientists go there to study.

But there are cases that pop up occasionally around the Dakotas/Montana area.


18 posted on 07/23/2021 4:38:04 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Spktyr

Gotta protect those prairie dogs.


19 posted on 07/23/2021 5:15:24 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Salamander; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Time for the bring out yer dead thing.

Children shouldn't play with dead things...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.

20 posted on 07/23/2021 5:56:28 AM PDT by null and void ("Fact Checkers" Didn't Exist Until The Truth Started Getting Out)
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