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Plague-bearing fleas spark closures at popular Lake Tahoe sites
- syspec 6y ago2020 just keeps on giving doesn't it.
- bobosha 6y ago...and then it got worse
- umvi 6y agoI mean, bubonic plague isn't extinct. California apparently had case(s) back in 2015. And it spreads by fleas so... unlikely this will spread very far.
- graeme 6y agoIndeed plague has been endemic to the us since the california plague of the early 1900s But it’s curable now https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
- throwaway316943 6y agoOnly until it turns into Pneumonic Plague. Then you’re right fucked.
- onecommentman 6y agoShhh! The earthquake gods are listening...
- ck2 6y agosince the article doesn't even bother https://google.com/search?q=symptoms+of+bubonic+plague https://google.com/search?q=symptoms+of+bubonic+plague
- est31 6y agoWith our species encroaching further and further on the natural habitats of wild animals, it's likely that another disease causing agent with pandemic potential like sars-cov-2 will emerge sooner than we think. Will it be another coronavirus? Will it be a bacterium? We don't know, nor do we know how it will look like, how easy it'll spread and how many of us it'll kill next time. There are already as we speak, countless spillover events from animals to humans. Most of these diseases don't spread between humans and only affect that single patient, which is good. But eventually one of them will be able to. Something like Ebola with the transmission characteristics of sars-cov-2 would be absolutely devastating for our civilization. It won't be the last one to have been destroyed by disease.
- dheera 6y agoTo a great degree if everyone wore N95 respirators for a month we'd probably be through this pandemic already. But we're still 6 months into it, they don't have N95 respirators at any of my local stores, many people aren't wearing masks, and those that are are largely using ineffective cloth or surgical masks with holes on the sides. And they were harrassing Asians for wearing masks in the early stages of the pandemic, too. It's politics, misinformation, and ignorance that has the biggest potential to kill.
- Retric 6y agoBuilding machines to make N95 masks quickly is extremely difficult and the masks themselves don’t last for that long. Scaling production to cover just medical professionals within 6 months didn’t happen, let alone the general public. However, we could scale N95 capacity for the next pandemic relatively cheaply. The fact nobody is talking in those terms suggests it’s simply not going to happen, and arguably the real reason why why we don’t have them for this pandemic.
- ipsum2 6y agoI admire your optimism, but: > In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-d...
- m0zg 6y agoAll right, let's do the asteroid now and Yellowstone supervolcano. That way we can be done with all the bullshit in one year and continue with our lives. Yellowstone might solve global warming as well, at the cost of rapid global cooling.
- Havoc 6y ago>Plague-bearing fleas 2020 just keeps on giving