Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say
Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say
This was the first recorded death from the disease in Coconino County since 2007.
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This was the first recorded death from the disease in the county since 2007
... What?
Plague is still around, but people don't really die from it any more because of modern medicine.
Very fitting that the Americans are about to get rid of modern medicine.
There are places along the highway in northern California that have signs warning you not to walk into the forest because you could get the plague.
I camped at a spot on a road trip by the border of Arizona and California and all around the campsite it warned of squirrels with plague, we felt uneasy all night
It's not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it's any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.
Well... some areas of America are.
Have you seen who's running your health department
Federally
Yeah jt stopped being a problem because it's an easy bacteria
People usually think that Yersinia pestis was left in the Middle Ages, but that’s not the case. Just let the rats breed, and you can create another plague epidemic.
RFK: hold my raw milk
You'd also need to make it immune to the various antibiotics that work on it. Otherwise it's not particularly difficult to treat with modern medicine.
That's really hard, which is why they went with preventing people from being able to access healthcare.
A biologist, Eric York, caught the plague from a mountain lion from Yellowstone that had fleas with the plague. This is the 2007 incident.
The plague is still around. Black-tailed prairie dogs can carry it in the US.
Well I'm glad there are competent and responsible people in charge of disease control. Oh wait...
There have been plague signs all over the woodland areas in my part of the country for decades.
People don’t die from it anymore because of antibiotics.
That was the part I found surprising. That somebody died from it. Maybe it wasn't diagnosed soon enough or they had comorbidities or something.