That's it. We're moving back to WY.

 

Luckily it is treatable if you get to hospital quick enough.

Antibiotics and ICU care really improve the odds.

Wonder what the story was with this case? Didn't seek treatment till too late or other underlying morbidities?

 

Sounded like he died in the ER.

 

Florida had a case of leprosy a few years back. Government claimed it came from an armadillo and had nothing to do with the army of unvaccinated, unvetted and uncivilized people swarming into the US.

 

I read in the news that it was Pneumonia based. The Bubonic Plague is alive and well all over and that's the one that killed off so many people.

 

Reported Cases of Human Plague -- United States, 1970-2020

About 7 people die from the plague every year in the US, primarily found in rural western states .
Plague is treated with antibiotics now.

 

Yep. Plague is carried by fleas that are often on various species of rodents (to include prairie dogs.) It starts as Bubonic, then if untreated, becomes Pneumonic Plague (which is when you get the person-to-person transmission, without needing the fleas as the vector. Hantavirus is spread through the droppings of said members of the rodent family. And yes, armadillos CAN carry leprosy (and frequently do.)

 

Armo’s are the only animal carrier of Leprosy and humans are the only animal's that contract it🙄
I guess you could say we have a special relationship w them🙈

 

Just don’t mess with rodents

 

If I catch a mouse in a trap I put on gloves and throw away the whole trap, mouse and all. Then wash my hands like a compulsive person.

 

Ground Squirrels here carry the plague .... Most get shot on sight. Find them in our quail feed a lot

 

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Here too. When I’m mowing I have my pellet gun on the tractor with me.

 

Total of three men were exposed and one died about 30 years ago in Sheridan, WY after being exposed to an infected bobcat that wandered into their camp. Black death is always out there... somewhere.

 

I'm an ardent student of history. And I know that most here probably think the history of the Middle Ages is a sure-fire cure for insomnia. But we can learn a lot that is important for today's day and age, by studying the past.

Medieval historian Norman F. Cantor has written much about the plagues of the Middle Ages, and especially the "Black Death". It had 3 forms: the bubonic (with the familiar swellings), the septicemic (where the blood is infected), and the pneumonic (involving the lungs). Of these, septicemic and especially the pneumonic form are the worst. Because they don't require a vector (such as fleas) for transmission. The septicemic is spread by contact with bodily fluids, such as blood and sputum. However the "pneumonic" form of plague is the most contagious, because it can be spread directly from person to person by coughing. (Just like flu and colds are spread).

He ends his book with the chilling observation:

"In today's world, we think the horrors that our distant ancestors endured from the Black Death, are a relic of the past. Something that our modern medical science has conquered, never to be seen again. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Plague is merely lingering, dormant. Biding its time. Waiting for the opportunity to once again be unleashed on an unsuspecting humanity."

 

Mowing and weed wracking use masks and googles

 

I think mowing and weed whacking are the problem. Just don't do it.

 

I remember a few years ago a couple die from the plague they caught from sleeping in sleeping bags that were stored in a barn and the bags had fleas from the the prairie dogs. They were from New Mexico or Arizona.

I love watching plague stories on you tube. I think I have watched all of them.

 

I read The Demon in the Freezer that is a terrifying read on smallpox. I ride public transit and work retail. I have a very high risk in an outbreak.

 

Well the good thing is it isn't in the Wild anymore. What is Scary is US and Russia are suppose to be the only ones with it in the freezer. I would be real scared if one of those Middle Eastern Countries got a hold of it.

 

The book clearly stated Russia made literal tons of smallpox bioweapon and most of it went missing. God knows who has it.

 

Wasn’t just regular ol’ smallpox either. It was new and improved.

 

I watched 3 rats run into my garage. When I went in the garage, I couldn't find them. However, I threw out about 10 or so blocks of poison and every one of them were eaten. I'm waiting to smell the dead rats, but no smell yet.

 

Ground squirrels are a constant problem here. So bad all my garden plots are enclosed with wire cloth. My fruit trees are also caged. I keep a couple of baited live traps around the garden area that usually catches them if they get past the dogs.But then partially my fault as I keep a water source out for the wild cotton tails and quail which also draws them in.

 

Tourists staying in summer cabins out there get exposed thru chipmunks and ground squirrels hanging around for food..Id read several cases like that…Anti-bios are wonderful things..The vaccine only lasts 6 months and is as bad/worse than Yellow Fever….they were the two baddest Army shots…
YF is endemic here but Plague isnt…Im ok w that🙄

 

Yellow fever and anthrax. They wouldn’t give them both to us on the same day, so we spent two days at medical