[Newsbot]

Title: Oregon man battling 'Black Death' plague
Category: Health
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2012-06-15 20:20:16

[CrazyNewfie]

Oh isn't that just great news to start my weekend! The plague great!
At least there hasn't been a case here since 1939.

[ShepherdsDog]

gophers are carriers of it. It's endemic amongst many of their colonies.

[CanadianJeff]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

gophers are carriers of it. It's endemic amongst many of their colonies.

That totally won't get the people in the prairies to panic.

[GreenTiger]

I am given to understand that in England there have been case where in Cathedrals where a number of black death victims were buried and attempts were made to renovate the place that it was discovered that Y Pestis the virus causing the plague is alive and well and has to be handled EXTREMELY carefully.

The virus is very nasty stuff and is very resilient.

[sandorski]

FML. I'm gonna OD on Bathsalts in the middle of a crowded shopping Mall.

Let the Zombie Apocalypse begin!!!

[fifeboy]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

I am given to understand that in England there have been case where in Cathedrals where a number of black death victims were buried and attempts were made to renovate the place that it was discovered that Y Pestis the virus causing the plague is alive and well and has to be handled EXTREMELY carefully.

The virus is very nasty stuff and is very resilient.

It's a bacteria, not a virus. And it is, to my understanding, an uncommon but regular occurance in the SW USA.

[GreenTiger]

fifeboy fifeboy:

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

I am given to understand that in England there have been case where in Cathedrals where a number of black death victims were buried and attempts were made to renovate the place that it was discovered that Y Pestis the virus causing the plague is alive and well and has to be handled EXTREMELY carefully.

The virus is very nasty stuff and is very resilient.

It's a bacteria, not a virus. And it is, to my understanding, an uncommon but regular occurance in the SW USA.

Thank you for the correction it is still nasty stuff though I haven't heard if it being a regular occurrence in The States. I'm going to look into it though.

[andyt]

Yep - occurs in the 4 corners area - rodents carry it, not just gophers. I think it's actually the fleas on the rodents that transmit it.

From the article: "Oregon has about one human case a year, while the U.S. as a whole records an average of 11 cases a year, mostly in the South."

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/201206 ... z1y0DNpppt

[Thanos]

$1:

Oregon man battling 'Black Death' plague

Poor bastard. Someone should have told him to never marry an Italian.