Squirrel tests positive for the bubonic plague.

[Number1]

Red, is there something you're not telling us?

Squirrel tests positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado

 

[Midwayman]

I thought it was endemic in rodents out in that area.

 

[Ken g6]

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Red, is there something you're not telling us?

Squirrel tests positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado

He's a Canadian. I'm from Colorado.

*cough* *cough*

 

[Exterous]

He's a Canadian. I'm from Colorado.

*cough* *cough*

What have you been doing to the squirrels in Colorado?!

 

[BudAshes]

Since this is Colorado are sure they aren't getting it mixed up with the bubonic chronic?

 

[brianmanahan]

i heard that everyone in canada carries the bubonic, it's just too cold for it to be effective up there

 

[Red Squirrel]

I better get vaccinated.

Seriously though that kinda sucks. Always liked feeding the squirrels, but if that makes it here like ticks have, might have to think twice.

 

[Spacehead]

Plague is really nothing new in the US & the world.

Between 1900 and 2015, the United States had 1,036 human plague cases with an average of 9 cases per year. In 2015, 16 people in the Western United States developed plague, including 2 cases in Yosemite National Park. These US cases usually occur in rural northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada.

Bubonic plague - Epidemiology