And that’s after showing symptoms. And you can go a week before symptoms start showing. Very scary.

I think armadillos and prairie dogs harbor the disease. Don’t mess with them!

Edit: armadillos might be leprosy, can’t remember for sure right now

This is nothing new in the west - plague has always been rampant in prairie dogs, yet people complain about efforts to control their populations.

Don't fuck with prairie dogs, bats, armadillos, etc.

These things happen every few years, there's no vaccine, this has nothing to do with RFK.

A kid in the southwest nearly died from plague ~5 years ago, I guess what RFK does is retroactive?

Again, plague is rampant in wild animals in the west/southwest, it's not a new issue.

It's endemic in many places around the world, and its totally curable with simple antibiotics given early on

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/about/index.html

Yes.

The Plague is the Bubonic Plague. Generally well known and accepted term for it.

prarie dogs and maybe squirrels harbor them, because other rodents also take shelter in Priarie dog burrows its possible to spread between different species, sustaining zoonosis. bubonic seems the most treatable, but pneumonic and septisemic plague is more severe.

Yersinia pestis.

Black Death.

Comes in 3 flavors: Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic.

THE PLAGUE

(Editing to add, because I checked, NOT what killed Gene Hackman and his wife, that was another rodent sickness, hantavirus.)

If only they'd included a definition for the ignorant right in the same article:

"Plague occurs in three forms, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic, depending on whether the infection hits the lymph nodes, bloodstream or lungs. Most US cases are bubonic, typically spread via flea bites from infected rodents."