Plague sign posted in Yosemite National Park?
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Topic: Plague sign posted in Yosemite National Park?
Posted By: PrepGirl
Subject: Plague sign posted in Yosemite National Park?
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 10:33am
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A friend of mines daughter saw a sign in the park warning of flea bites and the plague from rodents squires fleas ... It says Plague Caution Picture of a squirell. Please anyone know of this Her father's a doctor so I know she not lieing. And she has a photo of the sign. ------------- PrepGirl |
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Posted By: PrepGirl
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 10:49am
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It's true I went to the Yosemite national park site. They say it's been identified in the Sirra Nevada including The park. ------------- PrepGirl |
Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 11:19am
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We have the same signs at many of the campgrounds down here in SoCal. Been seeing them for years. It's nothing new - just don't touch dead or dying animals and you'll be fine. ------------- "Buy it cheap. Stack it deep" "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary. |
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 1:22pm
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its well known that bats and squirrels as well as rats carry bubonic plague in the USA,else where as well i guess........dont eat road kill....lol ------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖 Marcus Aurelius |
Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 9:55pm
The others are correct. The agent for plague, Yersinia pestis, is commonly found infecting rodents of the US Western states. People are infected when we come into contact with the fleas that feed on the rodents, as the fleas are vectors who carry the bacterium to our bloodstream. https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html Please see the map, it is quite interesting! Plague is easily treated with antibiotics, it is nothing to worry about unless the patient is immune compromised and/or the infection is allowed to take hold in the human patient.
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PrepGirl wrote:Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: November 22 2017 at 10:53pm
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Thanks for the link Doc. CDC does have some good pages....One I look at a lot is the http://https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/" rel="nofollow - Weekly Flu Report |
Posted By: CRS, DrPH
Date Posted: November 23 2017 at 8:12am
You are welcome! Plague has a fascinating history and has had a huge impact upon human civilization. Plague in the United StatesPlague was first introduced into the United States in 1900, by rat–infested steamships that had sailed from affected areas, mostly from Asia. Epidemics occurred in port cities. The last urban plague epidemic in the United States occurred in Los Angeles from 1924 through 1925. Plague then spread from urban rats to rural rodent species, and became entrenched in many areas of the western United States. Since that time, plague has occurred as scattered cases in rural areas. Most human cases in the United States occur in two regions:
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 23 2017 at 7:10pm
| Dang, we have rodent plague in Colorado all the time which humans can get. You can't let your dog run in parks with lots of prairie dogs. The prairie dogs carry the fleas that have the plague and it kills the prairie dogs and you if your dog gets them then you get them from your dog. You get plague. It is no big deal just be careful. |