July 14, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Just in case you missed it.
A squirrel found in a Colorado town tested positive for bubonic plague, county health officials said.
Jefferson County health officials said in a statement Sunday that a squirrel found in the town of Morrison, which is just west of Denver, tested positive for the bubonic plague on Saturday.
The good news is that we know how to cure this one. The bad news? It’s official – Plague!
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I read yesterday that a 15-year-old in the Mongolian region of China had died of bubonic plague. They think he was bitten by a marmot (big ground squirrel).
1Next: zombies.
2I read that story to my husband and he said there’s plague in the southwest every year. Not that that’s the least bit comforting.
3Thankfully, a non-story as, yes, Plague is endemic to rodents in the US Southwest.
From Wikipedia:
“The CDC indicates that over the past century, plague in the U.S. has been most common in the areas of northern New Mexico, northwestern Arizona and southern Colorado.”
4Yes, prairie dogs and other rodents in the American southwest have been a plague reservoir for many decades.
But notice: massive swarms of locusts are devastating east Africa.
Can swarms of frogs and a resurgence of lice and a major river turned bloody red be far behind? I think not.
5It is thought that plague escaped to the world when newcomers to southwest China (Yunnan) caught it from its wild host, the golden marmot. The indigenous people had an elaborate theory about the marmot that required a hunter who killed one to quarantine himself for a time (3 days as I recall). That confined the disease to individual hunters.
Han pioneers did not know of this precaution and the disease was loosed.
6I wonder what the Evangelicals are waiting for? Isn’t God punishing us for electing Donald Trump? Or do they prefer plagues, pandemics, massive unemployment, hotter summers and who knows what’s next? Maybe it saves them time since they can skip over reading Revelations, now that they’re living in it?
7When frogs start falling from the sky, I’m outta here!
8Yeah, well I think those MAGA hats are a mark of the beast. My biblical scholar professor hubby agrees!
9We’ve got the West Nile Virus in the Dallas area now, they’re spraying for mosquitoes so it won’t be long. Now we just need Kuru, beriberi and kwashiorkor to finish the Jeopardy category.
10Bubonic plague and various other such diseases are found in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, bordering Mexico, from time to time. The raging COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico seems to get little news coverage.
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11The one to avoid is the hantavirus, one of the most lethal diseases known; the usual disease vector are rodents like mice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthohantavirus
Isn’t their a movie about Zombie Beavers?
12Rick#7 – everybody knows we’re getting all these plagues because Obama was President. It’s the black guy’s fault, always, no matter who’s in the White House now.
Grandma Ada – I, too, am waiting for raining frogs. There’s already a comet portending something. And the US mid-section heatwave coming this weekend is just a taste of what’s to come. I’m unsure we can turn this train wreck around.
13There is a plague in Washington D C but not all are four legged
14Roger @ 12: maybe there is such a movie, but no way will I enter “zombie beaver” as a search term in any search engine.
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