#bubonicplague — Public Fediverse posts

Hey MAGA: do you realize that when Blue states come together to make vaccines available and Red states ban them, you’ll be dead and we won’t?

#Vaccines #COVID #Measles #WhoopingCough #Polio #Rubella #Mumps #Flu #BubonicPlague #USPol

The only Easter Pepys this Old Coot can stomach. Original Digital Art. #peep #peeps #easterpeeps #marshmallowpeeps #pepys #diary #diarist #history #england #Brittan #britishisles #historian #london #greatfire #greatfireoflondon #plague #blackplague #bubonicplague #londonplague

A human #plague death was confirmed in northern #Arizona. What to know

by Stephanie Innes, Arizona Republic
July 11, 2025

"A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials confirmed July 11.

"The case is not connected to a recent die-off of prairie dogs in the area, officials said.

"The death of the Coconino County resident marks the first recorded pneumonic plague death in the county since 2007, officials with Coconino County Health and Human Services said in a statement.

"The county's confirmation of the death came after Northern Arizona Healthcare issued a statement that one of its patients had a presumptive positive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis, which is the bacterium that causes plague.

"The person recently died in the Flagstaff Medical Center emergency department on the day the person sought treatment, the statement said.

"The Northern Arizona Healthcare statement says that 'despite appropriate initial management and attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation, the patient did not recover' and says that Northern Arizona Healthcare team is 'saddened by this loss of a community member.'

"Citing patient privacy, officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare and Coconino County said they would not be releasing additional information about the patient who died.

"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says plague in humans is relatively rare, with about seven human cases reported annually across the country.

"Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection, according to Coconino County health officials. A 2015 CDC report characterized it as the least common of the three main forms of plague. The other two main forms are bubonic and septicemic.

"The CDC says Yersinia pestis is transmitted by fleas, cycles naturally among wild rodents and that humans usually get the plague after being bitten by an infected rodent flea or by handling an infected animal. People may also become infected through exposure to sick pets, especially cats, the CDC says.

"County officials are investigating a recent sudden die-off of prairie dogs in the Townsend Winona area northeast of #Flagstaff that may be caused by plague, but county officials on July 11 said in their statement that the prairie dog case and the human plague death are 'not related.' "

#YersiniaPestis #AnimalHealth
#HumanHealth #Disease #TheBlackDeath #BubonicPlague

A human near #FlagstaffAZ just died from #ThePlague. But it's just a coincidence! (See next post)

#PrairieDogs are dying in northern #Arizona, and officials are concerned the cause could be the #plague.

by Catherine Reagor, Arizona Republic
July 9, 2025

"Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of #Flagstaff.

"A statement from Coconino County said a sudden die-off of prairie dogs and rodents can be an indicator of plague, an infectious disease that can affect humans and animals.

"Trish Lees, communications manager for Coconino County, said the number of prairie dogs that have died was unknown."

"To prevent exposure to plague, Coconino County recommends:

- Avoid fleas and use veterinarian-approved flea treatments on pets.
- Keep them on a leash and out of areas known to be inhabited by wild rodents.
- Report prairie dog, rodent and rabbit die-offs to Coconino County at 928-679-8756 or 928-679-8760.
- Prevent rodent infestations by removing brush, rock piles, trash and lumber from around homes and outbuildings.
- Avoid contact with wild animals.
- Use an insect repellent and tuck pant cuffs into your socks to help prevent flea bites.
- Do not camp next to rodent holes and avoid sleeping directly on the ground.
- Be aware that cats are highly susceptible to plague.
- If your pet has a high fever, a loss of appetite, lethargy, a cough or eye drainage, contact a veterinarian immediately.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/07/09/prairie-dogs-dying-arizona/84512692007/

#YersiniaPestis #AnimalHealth #HumanHealth #Disease #TheBlackDeath #BubonicPlague

Florence Nightingale in Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts:

.> The more one hears about this famine, the more one feels that such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before.

.> — Florence Nightingale (1877)

.> The newly constructed railroads, lauded as institutional safeguards against famine, were instead used by merchants to ship grain inventories from outlying drought-stricken districts to central depots for hoarding (as well as protection from rioters). Likewise the telegraph ensured that price hikes were coordinated in a thousand towns at once, regardless of local supply trends.

.> Dissident journalists like William Digby in Madras... and the Bombay Statesman’s representative in the Deccan stirred troubling memories of the Irish famine as well as the #SepoyMutiny. In England, moreover, a group of old Indian hands and Radical reformers, including William Wedderburn, Sir Arthur Cotton, John Bright, Henry Hyndman and Florence Nightingale, kept The Times’s letters column full of complaints about #Calcutta’s callous policies.

.> Obdurate Bombay officials meanwhile continued to outrage Indians and incite charges of a cover-up in the press by refusing to publish any estimate of rural mortality. (Even Florence Nightingale was snubbed when she requested figures in early 1878.)

.> The bubonic plague came to Bombay in summer 1896 probably as a stowaway on a ship from Hong Kong. At the time, some scientists theorized that drought, as previously in southern China, was a critical factor in driving plague-carrying rats into more intimate commensality with human victims.36 Bombay, in any event, offered an ideal ecology for a pandemic: fetid, overcrowded slums (perhaps the densest in Asia) infested with a huge population of black rats. For years health officers had warned #British administrators that their refusal to expend anything on slum sanitation was preparing the way for an “epidemic apocalypse.” Florence Nightingale, in addition, had repeatedly crusaded against the city’s “phantasmagoria” of disease conditions, but the “European townspeople were united in blocking increased taxation to pay for new water and drainage schemes.”

.> The railroad system, meanwhile, consumed (to 1880) thirteen times as much investment as all hydraulic works. As the pro-irrigation lobby led by Sir Arthur Cotton and Florence Nightingale protested during the 1876–77 famine: “Now we have before our eyes the sad and humiliating scene of magnificent Works... that have cost poor India 160 millions, which are so utterly worthless in the respect of the first want of India, that millions are dying by the side of them.” ( #Gandhi, echoing this critique, would later denounce the railroads that “depleted the countryside of its [food] stocks and killed the handicrafts” as an underlying cause of #famine.)