Posted on 06/13/2012 7:57:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
An Oregon man is at death's door in a hospital battling a rare case of the infamous “Black Death” plague, health officials said.
The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, was bitten on the hand while trying to pull a mouse away from a stray cat on June 2 and got sick several days later, doctors at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend told The Oregonian newspaper.
The man was thought to be suffering from septicemic plague — meaning the ruthless bacteria was spreading in his bloodstream — and was in critical condition on Tuesday, doctors said.
Karen Yeargain, the county health department's communicable disease coordinator, told The Oregonian that officials were working to confirm that the man had the plague, but that all the symptoms were there, including stomach pain, bleeding mouth, nose and anus and dying tissue.
He's just the fifth person to catch the plague in the state since 1995.
Only about 10 to 15 people in the United States catch the frightening illness each year, typically in western states.
Globally, health officials report about 1,000 to 3,000 cases per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Posession is 9/10ths of the claw. ;-)
“Oregon health officials don’t know if the man was bitten by the cat or the mouse.”
I was bit by a feral cat about three weeks ago. The day after found the cat dead with something crusted around it’s muzzle. Sent the head of to a lab, results inconclusive. Last Sunday completed the rabies shots. Life’s a trip!
I thought the Black Plague was carried by fleas. Fleas living on rodents (as in a mouse).
This story, like so many, makes very little sense. He should have let the cat eat the mouse.
A lot of people figured that out a real long time ago. Unfortunately, too late for the many who died of the Black Plague.
Actually plague first came to the United States in the 1850's. The rail companies were legally importing Chinese coolies to work on the transcontinental railway.
There was a small plague outbreak in San Fransisco's Chinatown district. An alert doctor spotted the outbreak almost immediately, and appealed to the city council to institute a quarantine and rat catching program.
The town fathers refused to believe there was plague in their fair city.
They screwed around long enough for it to infect the local ground squirrel population where there was no hope stopping it from spreading. Thanks to their inaction, now one can be exposed to plague anywhere in the western US.
Any parallels one wishes to draw with a more recent "gay plague" are left to the reader as an exercise.
Those who do not learn the lessons of the past...
Nope. A cat is an obligate carnivore, it will starve to death on a vegetarian diet. Hardly counts as a sport.
Things are more like they are now than they’ve ever been - Yogi Berra
Shame on you!
Both he and his wife.
Some folks don't know, and they learn hard or easy, I suppose.
I followed all of the briefings except where I knew I could get away with it.
/johnny
Ever read the ingredients on a bag of cat chow? Seems one can fool the cat into thinking it gets meat protein when all the time it is getting corn, wheatr, soy and stuff. Yuck!!
(If i was a cat)
Anyway, the fool should have let the stray get the plague, and be done with it.
Yersinia pestis, has a ring, don't it? I do believe some petitioned to change the name recently, off the top of my head can't recall the new nomencalture.
Was going to ping you this AM regards a post about nullification, but could not remember how you spelled your name, kept getting a message that no such freeper existed.
:-))
It's good that someone understands that. You certainly can't treat catz like dogs.
/johnny
Thank you for posting that. What a great movie!
ROTFL. The sad thing is you are probably right.
“it wasn’t ‘green’ organic cat food”
Maybe that was it. My first thought was he was trying to rescue the mouse!
Whatever his reasoning, it was poor judgment to say the least.
Nor the sharpest knife in the box. :)
“The cats I just club with my Yankees’ baseball bat.”
MEOOOOUCH!
IIRC, (and I probably don’t) the grain based cat “foods” need to be supplemented with an amino acid (taurine?) unavailable from plant sources.
Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis)...
Reagards pasteurella, I believe yersinia was also renamed, will check on it in the morrow. Right now I seem to lack the motivation..
Been a long day in the salt mines.
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