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Bubonic Plague in Colorado

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Just reading this gave me the willies *shudders*

Just thinking about how easily she picked this up is scary...and something to make you go HMMM...how did the dead rodents these ppl are touching get it in the first place.

http://news.yahoo.co...-145613726.html

A seven-year-old Pagosa Springs, Colo., girl is recovering from an extremely rare disease that harkens back to a deadly epidemic in the Middle Ages.

Sierra Jane Downing is recovering well from a case of bubonic plague at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver, 9News in Denver reports.

Bubonic plague was known as the Black Deathin the 14th century and killed 30 to 60 percent of the European population. Victims died from the flea-borne disease within days of being infected.

But things are much different now.

And in Sierra's case, alert doctors picked up on the symptoms quickly and started her on a regimen of antibiotics that lead to a recovery.

Sierra was admitted to the hospital with a fever of 107 degrees. She was delirious, having seizures and had a high heart rate. It turns out that Sierra had came in contact with a dead squirrel at a park near her home recently, according to reports. Bubonic plague is often transmitted from a flea bite, and it's suspected that fleas from the dead animal jumped to Sierra, causing her illness.

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  1. Bubonic plague is often transmitted from a flea bite, and it's suspected that fleas from the dead animal jumped to Sierra, causing her illness.

I was out west a long time ago and I remember signs warning about the "cute" chipmonks carrying bubonic plague. Or, rather, their fleas carrying it.

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I remember a story a while back about someone doing genetic experiments on an old strain of bubonic plague. At the time, I thought "yeah, this is how movies about the end of the world start" :o

("hey, what could possibly go wrong?")

On a related note, has anyone else been having dreams about an old black woman playing guitar on a porch in Nebraska? I think she calls herself "Mother Abigail" :unsure:

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