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KevO wrote:then they should see dentists more often

highlander wrote:Come on guys (and gurls) cut the doomers some slack. How can folks have panic attacks when you keep throwing facts at them.
I was hoping to add to the hysteria by speculating the plague came up with the illegals, but you blew that for me.
Well, there is always leporsy

purcatty wrote:When peak oil hits and it is street war, it will be the races against the races, and the old guard will be taken out. Couch potatoes against gang bangers no contest.

katkinkate wrote:I read a novel about a bubonic plague epidemic scenario, in New York. Sorry, can't remember the author's name, but it was called "Plague". It's a pretty good doomer story, although it did have a happy ending.

Tanada wrote:

katkinkate wrote:I read a novel about a bubonic plague epidemic scenario, in New York. Sorry, can't remember the author's name, but it was called "Plague". It's a pretty good doomer story, although it did have a happy ending.

Are you talking about the story where the US Army deploys remote controlled Monocopters at the end?

strider3700 wrote:thats the happy ending? death by nerotoxin rather then plague? Or did it prevent the plague from spreading to the rest of the world saving millions and that was the happy ending?

This is why I love doomer porn. Take a horrible event that kills millions and turn it into a good thing.

Insecticide used on fleas carrying the disease at Badlands National Park
INTERIOR, S.D. - On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets.
The deadly disease sylvatic plague was discovered in May in a huge prairie dog town in the Conata Basin. The black-tailed prairie dog is the main prey of ferrets, and the disease quickly killed up to a third of the area's 290 ferrets along with prairie dogs.
The disease stopped spreading with the arrival of summer's hot, dry weather, but it poses a serious threat to efforts to establish stable populations of one of the nation's rarest mammals, said Scott Larson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Pierre. …
About 5 to 15 people are infected by plague in the United States each year, but it can be cured with antibiotics if treatment is prompt.

Eli wrote:Won't somebody please think of the ferrets or the prairie dogs?

There's some troubling public health news out of Arizona this week. The Navajo and Coconino counties of the state have warned that fleas in the area tested positive for bubonic plague.

To be clear, no deaths or illnesses have been reported in the region so far. But the highly infectious and deadly pathogen—which claimed millions of lives in the Middle Ages and is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis—is concerning enough that health officials have issued public warnings over the fleas, urging residents to stay away from animals that might contract the infection.

"Navajo County Health Department is urging the public to take precautions to reduce their risk of exposure to this serious disease, which can be present in fleas, rodents, rabbits and predators that feed upon these animals," the officials wrote. "The disease can be transmitted to humans and other animals by the bite of an infected flea or by direct contact with an infected animal."