China has another infectious disease worry on its hands, but this one is old school. As in, it's the bubonic plague, reports the BBC. It seems a herder in Inner Mongolia came down with the disease, and he's now undergoing treatment in a hospital, per the New York Times.
The disease—which wiped out tens of millions as the Black Death in the Middle Ages—is often transmitted by fleas from infected rodents. In this region, the usual culprit is a marmot.
Health officials in the city of Bayannur have warned residents not to hunt, eat, or transport at-risk animals, including marmots.
"At present, there is a risk of a human plague epidemic spreading in this city," said the local health authority, per CNN.
"The public should improve its self-protection awareness and ability, and report abnormal health conditions promptly." The bubonic plague, one of three forms of the plague, is treatable with antibiotics.
The US usually gets at least a few plague cases a year, like this 2018 case out of Idaho.
Gary is absolutely correct. i just had that conversation with my doctor son. If I understood him correctly, the plague is a bacteria. Not like the Covid-19 and penicillin is a successful treatment and has been for a very long time.
China is the gift that keeps on giving. Think about it. Ebola is about the only epidemic that hasn't been sourced in China in the last 2 decades. The story I read today was talking about pneumonic plague - more deadly. But at least antibiotic treatment tends to limit the fatalities. Oh well. Until WHO says it's a problem, with China's permission, it's not news.
I said in a post recently, I've learned that we all barely dodge the bullet every day from one virus or another.
Remember....the reason why the 1918 Spanish Flu was so horrible was it was the first time in human history massive amounts of people moved across the continents.
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
IIRC, a landscaper in Roseburg died from BP quite a while ago. Doctors think he was bitten by a flea from an infected ground squirrel.
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