This was the first recorded death from the disease in the county since 2007
... What?
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2025
315 points (99.4% liked)
News
30989 readers
3024 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
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 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.
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.
I camped at a spot on a road trip by the border of Arizona and California and all around the campsite it warned of squirrels with plague, we felt uneasy all night
It's not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it's any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.
Well... some areas of America are.
Have you seen who's running your health department
Federally
Yeah jt stopped being a problem because it's an easy bacteria
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.
That's really hard, which is why they went with preventing people from being able to access healthcare.
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.
I've been there. It's beautiful. It's also very easy to stay a respectful distance away from the wildlife. I don't understand what you mean by "ruin".
Just don't fight with lions and you'll be fine.
What if they start it?
No idea, ask your lawyer.
I dumped him and quit the gym. Wait, this is why I don't have a wife..
Don't ruin Mountain Lions! Plague or not, I will fully accept the consequences for petting a mountain lion.
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
All I see is a nice fur hat.
Okay I just jammed the feral frontiersman side of my personality back into the corner with the Norman. Anyways yes these rodents are rather cute
They're only cute and happy cuz they're INSANE
Don't give them caffeine!
Or water
Thats a little sweeping
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.
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.