Is the bubonic plague still around?

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28 Sep 2007, 6:34 pm

I believe I saw where a Yank in Arizona USA recently contracted the bubonic plague. Apperently it still exists among mice there, and I think they said the person either caught it from a flea, or from mouse excrement.

Is "Ring Around The Rosy" really about the bubonic plague???

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28 Sep 2007, 7:01 pm

ring around the rosy, i thought it was about smallpox.

the world population needs a bit of a numbers cull. i would think it's only a matter of time.

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29 Sep 2007, 12:51 pm

Nope, it's about plague

Ring around the rosies (sypmtom of plague)

Pocket full of posies (thought to be protective)

Ashes, ashes (from burning bodies)

We all fall down! (dead).

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29 Sep 2007, 10:02 pm

Meteor wrote:

I was brushing up on the black plague today after thinking of the South Park with it... just realized it's aroundjust less common. But the fact you could have it and not know scares me and I have a phobia of diseases, kinda.

In the eastern coast of America, I wonder and ask fellow Asperger people here... do you think the plague is still a risk or something that won't happen unless reported in the news? Please answer as I don't want to have opinions alone here.

NO!

The bubonic plague is gone and is never coming back. I'd know, my dad was a general practitioner in medicine, before he became a psychiatrist.

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07 Oct 2007, 6:51 pm

Then your dad needs to keep up on his medical journals more.

CDC plague page

NIH plague page

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08 Oct 2007, 8:24 am

I would suspect that most countries keep examples of these sorts of things in petri dishes locked up in underground labs.
Probably get you some bubonic plague if the price was right.
Maybe even try on e-bay.

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08 Oct 2007, 2:56 pm

Others are correct, the bubonic plague is still around and a few cases a year are still reported in the US. I think most or all of the cases are in the southwest. It's easily curable now, too. I've heard that having type O blood confers natural resistance against bubonic plague.

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09 Oct 2007, 9:32 pm

Don't worry about it, and perhaps try and stay away from reading up on diseases for awhile. I find health issues and diseases interesting at times, especially Abnormal Psychology. However, if you read about that stuff to much you will become a Hypochondriac. You'll start to think that alot of the different attributes of illnesses apply to you, even if they don't. So it's better just not to think too much about it, or you'll just freak yourself out needlessly.

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09 Oct 2007, 11:43 pm

I don't think that we need to worry about it coming back.

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