5d ago

Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say

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Arizona resident dies from pneumonic plague, health officials say

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Davriellelouna @lemmy.world

5d ago

Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say

www.bbc.com /news/articles/cz7l8w8881qo

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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.
  
  Well... some areas of America are.
  
  Yeah jt stopped being a problem because it's an easy bacteria
  
  There are three types of black death :
  Bubonic plague, you get in glands in your armpits - rarely fatal nowadays.
  Pneumonic plague in your lungs, which can be fatal if not treated early.
  Haemhorragic plague in the brain, which is almost always fatal. Its only painful for a day, then you don't notice it. 40 days later, your brain literally explodes.
- 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.
- A biologist, Eric York, caught the plague from a mountain lion from Yellowstone that had fleas with the plague. This is the 2007 incident.
  
  Don't ruin Yellowstone for me please.
- 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

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 🥺
  
  Just perfection

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Yersinia pestis is actually super common in our groundsquirrels here in southern AZ.

My mom had Y Pestis for about 2 years. Worked in an animal shelter -- which are frequently in older buildings and store lots of kibble. No nodule presentation so it was hard to diagnose until they came to it.
2 week course of treatment.

Murican evangelists ensuring the rapture for all.
- The "you do you, let me do me" doesn't hold when the "you do you" involves everybody else as well.
  "I want to die, and I want you to die with me!"
  At some point you need to treat them like zombies and just bring out a fucking shotgun.
  
  I think it's well beyond time for that.

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