Girl, 7, catches the PLAGUE from fleas on dead squirrel while camping with family in......Colorado!

How has the Black Plague shown up in Colorado?

Last Edited by Xero Time on 09/06/2012 12:47 PM

Things are gonna get scary when someone catches the bubonic plague and it turns into the pneumonic plague, at which time spreading it around will require only a sneeze, no fleas required...

Scary thought...

It's not as rare as you might think. Do a little web searching.

quoting the article you linked in the OP:

"Doctors believe Sierra Jane Downing contracted the disease, also known as the 'black death', from a dead squirrel while camping with her family in Pagosa Springs. Fleas are common transmitters of the plague."

Yet you dont hear of this everday.

It's always been around, just at a low level. Seems like many more cases the last year or two though, possibly because of the changing climate opening up new areas where it can spread faster/better. Used to be seen more in southern states. But some guys just caught a tropical fish in OREGON, so what used to do better in the south is moving north. That includes Burmese pythons, and apparently plague too...

If it is the plague we all know that our scientist remade it and probably released it just to see how many would die from it.

I see thanks for that. I know 1 thing for sure, im glad im nowhere near Colorado or the plague carrying fleas!

and how would she get bit from fles on a dead squirrl? did she pick it up? do fles even stay on dead hosts? I dont think they do as fles bite and suck blood from live warm animals.

.....Thought provoking thanks for the input.

Plague is carried by prairie dogs and armadillos. So it is common in certain parts of the US.

[link to www.google.com]

...be afraid....the Plague has never been eliminated only limited due to sanitation, hygiene and medicine..I am 58 and every few years this story has popped up,it's true, but rare...some 3rd world location have always been on the edge of a full blown break out..luckily, every blood borne disease which has gone airborne must alter itself enough that the airborne strain is substantially weaker...so far :)..Outbreak,the book NOT the horrible film, should cause a chill down your spine..the real story of the CDC and others tracking the Ebola breakout in the 90's in Africa..

Thanks for that, I didnt realise it was common?

The plagues mentioned in Revelation are starting.....West Nile, Bubonic and there will be others that we haven't heard of in a while....

...of course fleas remain on the host,at least for a while..and when it hops away it still has the virus it ingested..for example, the dying squirrel is bitten by a flea(s) and they live on it for a few days and then the squirrel dies..a few hours later,Mr.Flea leaves looking for a warm meal and lo and behold a little girl plops down on the grass and Mr. Flea has a new host and we have a case of the Plague. Now, I always thought nature/God whoever runs this place, was pretty smart...the Plague, like so many others-West Nile etc., doesn't kill the carrier !!!..Why the hell doesn't it kill the squirrel or mosquito ? Well, we know...something has to kill something else...you don't have to go home,but you can't stay here,,,

107 temp?

i thought your brain fried at 105?

WTF was she doing messing around with a dead squirrel?

weird...

[link to www.cdc.gov]

...this is the best info I can find...999 cases of the Plague sense 1970 in the US...

This is nothing out of the ordinary. 100 something cases of it happen every year world wide.
Cipro kills it.
Relax.

The bubonic plague isn't all that serious or uncommon and it was NOT the Black Death of the Middle Ages.

We get a handful of plague cases every year here in the desert southwest. About the same as hanta virus.

Yep, who came up the dead squirrel?