Posted on Oct 30, 2015
Did you hear there is a teenager in Oregon with Bubonic Plague?
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http://news.yahoo.com/teenage-girl-oregon-hospitalized-bubonic-plague-055328058.html
I thought this disease was wiped out?
This is scary....they think she got it from a flea bite.
I thought this disease was wiped out?
This is scary....they think she got it from a flea bite.
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Seriously? We've already seen other diseases return. Why not the plague? Does anyone think that illegal aliens would carry some diseases but not others? Now let's look at the irony of the situation. The plague swept across the Medieval World because people feared cats supposing that they were familiars for witches. As cats were eradicated, the rat population exploded. With the rats came the fleas carrying the plague. The thought processes that allow people to enter our country illegally without screening for disease so they will vote for the party that opened the gates for them, is just about as primitive as the fear of witches.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
Right on Sir. This is one of the main reason for health screening of aliens. With our borders as they are, there is no screening and who knows what's coming into the country.
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Its still around.
One of the oldest identifiable diseases known to man, plague remains endemic in many natural foci around the world. It is still widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics and in warmer areas of temperate countries. Essentially a disease of wild rodents, plague is spread from one rodent to another by flea ectoparasites and to humans either by the bite of infected fleas or when handling infected hosts. Recent outbreaks have shown that...
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Bubonic Plague is alive and well in parts of the world. It is just much treatable with modern medicine.
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