Bubonic Plague case reported in California

[Csargo]

Here is the article.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/18/D8H2OUH87.html

Just though it was kinda weird to see something like that happen you know.

[Redleg]

There are several cases a year in the Western United States.

Often associated with rabbits in the wild. Edit: the article pointed out squirrels are the primary problem rodent in the area where this case happened.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I've heard about this too. It's odd.

[rory_20_uk]

Bubonic - no worries. Pneumonic - mass alert.

~:smoking:

[master of the puppets]

yeah, bubonic is'nt that bad, i'm one of those who sincerely believes that it was not the bubonic plauge that ripped thru europe but something with similare symptoms, i mean there is really nothing to say that it absolutely was the bubonic plauge that killed 1/3 of europe, just the symptoms.

[Devastatin Dave]

Must be from all the rats that are currently swimming over the Rio or crawing over and under the fences between the US and Mexico.

[master of the puppets]

Must be from all the rats that are currently swimming over the Rio.

yep those terrible terrible wet backsided rats.

[Rodion Romanovich]

yeah, bubonic is'nt that bad, i'm one of those who sincerely believes that it was not the bubonic plauge that ripped thru europe but something with similare symptoms, i mean there is really nothing to say that it absolutely was the bubonic plauge that killed 1/3 of europe, just the symptoms.

So what was it? Just curious about if there's any other interesting historical theory about what caused it. Surely the bad hygiene, malnutrition (as opposed to the great supplies of meat everyone got in the decades after the plague...) and improper handling of the many dead in the first waves could have been a very important factor combined with the actual plague. Also it's been observed that people with not too good vision had a greater immunity towards the plague and thus survived more, which means the humans living before the plague on average had lower resistance to it than humans today have. But still the bubonic plague itself must have been pretty dangerous to cause 1/3 of all people dying, or else I don't know what else could have caused it. Another disease? What do you think?