Poll of the Day > so..... Colorado has the plague

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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-colorado-squirrel-positive-bubonic-plague.html

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Sounds like occasional, minor outbreaks do occur in the US, mainly in the southwest, each year though. Which is almost kind of reassuring in a way.

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Yeah, apparently the US averages about seven cases per year.

Is there an easy way to check squirrels' armpits for buboes?

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Yeah small plague outbreaks in the US comes up every year or two.

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Criminalt posted...

Sounds like occasional, minor outbreaks do occur in the US, mainly in the southwest, each year though. Which is almost kind of reassuring in a way.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Yeah, apparently the US averages about seven cases per year.

This.

It's also not really a big deal, because that particular disease is fairly easily treatable with minor antibiotics. The main reason it was such a dramatic killer in its time was the fact that medieval people didn't have penicillin.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This.

It's also not really a big deal, because that particular disease is fairly easily treatable with minor antibiotics. The main reason it was such a dramatic killer in its time was the fact that medieval people didn't have penicillin.

The first time there was a SARS scare (we are currently in the 2nd) all we needed was Campbell's chicken noodle soup, DayQuil, and Sprite.

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Squirrels always have that

theyre cute but theyre little disease ridden monsters also

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