CBS New York...Bubonic Plague in NYC???

CBS News NY- channel 2 | 11/6/02 | johnnyjumpstart

[johnnyjumpstart]

As the CBS local News broadcast was signing off to go to the National news at 6:30 tonight ...they announced..."This just in....2 people in New York City hospital with symptoms of BUBONIC PLAUGE"! N0 detail yet.........

[B-bone]

Bubonic plaque still occurs occasionally in the US. I don't remember if there are areas in NM where it is found in the rodent population or not. I do know that there are occasional cases in So. Cal. usually from isolated ground squirrel populations.

Unless there are other cases, I would suspect this is an isolated instance. This is a disease that is usually associated with a rodent vector for introduction into the human population. Antibiotics are quite effective in preventing the disease in exposed individuals. For the individual patient who contracts the disease it can be a rough go however.

My prayers go out for this couple.

[JRandomFreeper]

But nowadays we know that it's caused by an imbalance of bodily humors, perhaps caused by a toad or a small dwarf living in the stomach.

You might want to update your Merck Manual.

/john

[nini]

actually, when we had a dog we had a terrible fflea problem. Spent tons of money on flea boombs etc. only thing that ever wored was an in home product called "Flea Buster"

[boomop1]

Probably a couple of flea bitten democRATS.

[YaYa123]

I'll be giggling all night! thanks

[genefromjersey]

" This just in : Never mind ! "

[Dead Dog]

Ring around the Rosey..actually.

[comebacknewt]

Perhaps from the Lautenberg corpse just across the river?

[tiki]

That explains it. We have bubonic plague in NM all the time. So don't panic. Most people recover.

[EggsAckley]

Now, when the plague of locusts starts.......that's when I'll start to worry...;o)

[null and void]

We get plague warnings out in the western states every year. They'll find chipmunks and squirrels with it, and put out a warning. As far as I know, this is NOT the famous "Black Plague" of yesteryear.

It is.

During the gold rush there was an outbreak of plague in San Francisco's Chinatown. A physician detected it and reported it to the city government, along with recomendations to contain it. The town fathers insisted that there was no plague in their fair city, refused to accept the report or institute a rat catching program.

Plague spread to the ground squirel population, escaped the city and is now endemic across the entire western US.

Any parallels one may wish to draw with a more recent "gay plague" are left to the reader as an exercise.

Those who do not remember the lessons of history are doomed to repete them...

[Owl4USA]

Which is worse Numonic(sp) or Bubonic?

Ebonic

LMAO

[Campion]

Black death, not "black plague". And yes, it is the same. Of course, we have medical care and antibiotics which people in the 14th Century didn't have.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Bubonic Plague in NYC???

Isn't that spread by RATS?

From post 18:

Eyewitness News has learned that doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center are caring for the two people, who have symptoms of the Bubonic plague.

[manfromlamancha]

That wasn't plague it was the Hunta Virus you are thinking of; if this is the plague I'll be upset. However, after lastnight the retaliation will be very swift.

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, some guy wheels a cart down your street and rings a bell while saying, "Bring out yer dead."

I'm not dead yet!

Not a big deal except for the poor principals. Plague is a bacterial disease (Yersinia pestis) that is endemic in the Western United States. It comes in three forms depending on the site of infection: bubonic (lymph system), septicemic (blood) and pneumonic (lungs) - same organism, same disease. The pneumonic form is very contagious, spread by coughing. The bubonic form is principally spread by the bites of infected fleas. Septicemic is largely a break in the skin.

You treat it with tetracyclines, for one, but you have to be careful - the toxin is actually part of the interiors of the cell walls of the organisms, so if you kill them all at once with antibiotics you can actually make the fever and other symptoms worse, killing the patient by curing him. Bummer.

Out-west kids know not to pet dead prairie dogs, but the occasional Greenie might not be quite that well-informed...

[Darkshadow]

Much as Nosferatu brought the pague with him to Wisborg, so too has Hillary brought the plague with her to New York

[EggsAckley]

I'm in the Monterey Bay Area. Where are you?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Anyone know the symptoms of Bubonic plague?

Did you see the CBS election coverage last night. Think of what Dan Rather and Leslie Stahl looked like. That's more or less it.

[Dallas]

ROFLMAO.......