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Outbreak of Plague in Canada

by thunderbird
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The plague is what killed so many people in horrible way in Europe. Now there's an outbreak in Canada, but not as bad as in the States. Best keep doors locked up in your trailer and hold off on hunting squirrels or prairie dogs for a while:

Plague found in Saskatchewan prairie dog - Yahoo! Canada News
  • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
    Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

    The plague is what killed so many people in horrible way in Europe. Now there's an outbreak in Canada, but not as bad as in the States. Best keep doors locked up in your trailer and hold off on hunting squirrels or prairie dogs for a while:

    Plague found in Saskatchewan prairie dog - Yahoo! Canada News
    You should get a job with main stream media. A single dead prairie dog is an outbreak...Best keep doors locked up...Too bad no humans have been infected since 1939.

    You wouldn't happen to be an unemployed swine flu headline writer by any chance?
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Lawrh View Post

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      You wouldn't happen to be an unemployed swine flu headline writer by any chance?
      Nope. The news media is downsizing though. Only jingoistic extremists get steady jobs working in the news media.
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  • Profile picture of the author cpace32
    Prairie Dogs are vermin anyways- they spread all kinds of diseases. No big surprise that the "plague" is one of the germs they happen to be carrying.
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  • Profile picture of the author NatureElf
    I believe that the plague was carried by the fleas on the animals. Please correct me if I am wrong. We had a few cases of plague (in animals) a few years back here in the states. Not much happened with it.
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    This happened a few years back in a park a few blocks from where I grew up, in the middle of Denver:

    'Black Death' found in Denver squirrels - USATODAY.com
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    • Profile picture of the author BizBoost
      Plagued with thoughts about plague...

      Just saw plague in an episode of House this past week.

      Anyways, I hear if you cover yourself from head to toe in peanut butter, you'll be safe.... from plague, anyways, but not from bears.

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        Originally Posted by BizBoost View Post

        Plagued with thoughts about plague...

        Just saw plague in an episode of House this past week.

        Anyways, I hear if you cover yourself from head to toe in peanut butter, you'll be safe.... from plague, anyways, but not from bears.

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        Ya know... I forgot to mention it but, when I first responded to pauls post about computer viruses, which I believe he posted yesterday, that episode of eureka was about the whole town getting a COMPUTER VIRUS!

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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

          Ya know... I forgot to mention it but, when I first responded to pauls post about computer viruses, which I believe he posted yesterday, that episode of eureka was about the whole town getting a COMPUTER VIRUS!

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          • Profile picture of the author seasoned
            Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

            Level 6 computers falling in love
            That's one of my favorite shows on TV.
            Yeah, but you BETTER LOVE KALE, DON'T camp in the dark, and DON'T hold the emobot too close!! 8-)

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Anytime that plague shows up (and it does periodically) it's considered an outcrop of it because at one time they thought it was eradicated. So it only takes one dead animal to call it an outcrop or outbreak. It doesn't mean that it's spreading - just that it showed up. People get panicked because they think that "outbreak" means a whole area.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Anytime that plague shows up (and it does periodically) it's considered an outcrop of it because at one time they thought it was eradicated. So it only takes one dead animal to call it an outcrop or outbreak. It doesn't mean that it's spreading - just that it showed up. People get panicked because they think that "outbreak" means a whole area.
      Well, it should be basically impossible to wipe it out, so I don't know why anyone would ever think otherwise. It WOULD be nice if we could get rid of all fleas, etc... but it hasn't happened yet. SO, why haven't WE seen an outbreak since? Better sanitation, better at controlling the rodent population, and flea population, and antibotics!

      HECK, LEPROSY is still around! And IT is curable also. Some things get SO blown up during one period that, while in another period they should be little more than footnotes, they continue to be greatly feared, etc...

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