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The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona

August 18, 2017

The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona

This has caused a real flood of emails since it has started right on target. Our model of plagues we wrote : “We certainly seem due for a pandemic, which likely will occur between 2017 and 2020 thanks to the abuse of antibiotics.” We wrote that January 27th, 2016. So far. health officials in two Arizona counties — Navajo County and Coconino County — have reported that fleas tested positive for Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the Black Death plague. Two humans have been infected so far.

In the major pandemic of the 14th century, things were not very clean and rodents roamed freely prospering in cities and houses. This Plague actually regularly appears in the American Southwest killing rodents and prairie dogs. Only occasionally has it made it to humans. Normally, it appears in fleas, rodents, rabbits, and predators which feed upon these animals. The danger is that this is transmitted by a bite. That means a flee bite can infect a human.

The symptoms of plague in humans generally appear within two to six days following exposure and include fever, chills, headaches, weakness, muscle pain, and swollen lymph glands. The disease can spread throughout the bloodstream and/or pneumonic may appear in the lungs.

Today, this is curable with proper antibiotic therapy if diagnosed and treated early.

 

BBC News – Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40, says WHO

November 22, 2014

BBC News – Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40, says WHO.

An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said.

The WHO warned of the danger of a “rapid spread” of the disease in the capital, Antananarivo.

The situation is worsened by high levels of resistance among fleas to a leading insecticide, the WHO added.

Humans usually develop the bubonic form of the plague after being bitten by an infected flea carried by rodents.

If diagnosed early, bubonic plague can be treated with antibiotics.

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