Anyone know the symptoms of Bubonic plague?
I am an RN and I can't say that I for sure can list the symptoms off the top of my head. They just don't teach about these kind of diseases in modern nursing schools anymore.
I'm sure they do in NM where there are a handful of human cases each year. When you go visit your vet to have your pets vaccinated, you see posters on the wall of the waiting room warning about the plague and telling pet owners not to let their pets run free and, if they do, warn them to be on the lookout if a pet brings home a dead rodent. When you go hiking, we are told to dust pets with a flea powder or have a good flea collar. No big deal here -- just be aware it's out there. I'd rather have plague and hanta virus to worry about than Lyme disease which, IMHO, is much more likely to be contracted by humans.
New Mexico's unoffical motto -- Land of the flea and home of the plague!