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kublikhan
Joined: 11 Jul 2003
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California squirrel infected with black death
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Parts of a national forest in California have been evacuated and closed down after a squirrel was found to be infected with the plague. Los Angeles officials say visitors were ordered to leave the Angeles National Forest as a precaution after the rodent was trapped in a routine check.
The plague killed as many as 25 million Europeans during the Middle Ages. It is a bacterial infection which can be transmitted to humans through the bites of infected fleas. If not treated with antibiotics, it is usually deadly.
There have been only four cases of human plague in Los Angeles County since 1984, none of which were fatal, according to officials.
It sounds like a screenplay for a Hollywood B-movie: bubonic plague-infected squirrels descend on Los Angeles. But despite the excitement among Angelenos on social media about the "Black Death" being found at a California campsite, health officials say this is not a problem for urban squirrels.
City conditions do not lend themselves to having fleas co-existing in large numbers as they would in a forested area, they say. Even in this forest area where the squirrel was found on Thursday, only five "plague-positive" squirrels have turned up in the last 20 years or so. This particular squirrel is dead - tests are being conducted to determine if it died of natural causes or the plague itself.
Plague-infected squirrel shuts Los Angeles park
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Fast Luck
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werent there some PEOPLE dying of it in oregon recently? is a squirrel really worse
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Fri Jul 26, 2013 10:33 am |
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Swift
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Yeah, a guy died not too long ago in a town 20 mins from here. In fact, I am going to that town now to help someone move. I'll watch out for squirrels.
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Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:21 am |
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Fast Luck
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black death is cool
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Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:12 pm |
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Swift
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Originally posted by kublikhan
The Black Death Returns: Oregon Man in Critical Condition with the Plague
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Yeah my mom told me about this guy, apparently her best friend knows him. He got bit in prineville, which is 20 mins from redmond, I work and live in both of these towns. He eventually got sent to Bend, then to portland etc.
Anyway, the story is pretty interesting because it took them forever to figure out what was wrong with him, a few weeks and a bunch of people around here put on their tin foil hats so to speak, and a huge conspiracy theory was going around that the government was trying to cover it up. it was pretty funny
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smurf_king
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this sounds like an article from a sensationalist newspaper
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