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.
Murican evangelists ensuring the rapture for all.
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.
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.
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.
Make the plague great again!
Antibiotics are woke.. and uh.. trans! /s
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Almost all rodents in the west can carry the plague. This is why you should not feed or play with squirrels and chipmunks. There’s also regular outbreaks in Madagascar.
But they're so cute 🥺
Yersinia pestis is actually super common in our groundsquirrels here in southern AZ.
