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    Bubonic Plague Case In Los Angeles

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

    SOURCE: REUTERS · ASSOCIATED PRESS · AFP · DRUDGE REPORT


    LA Woman Hospitalized With Bubonic Plague
    Apr 18 9:15 PM US/Eastern


    LOS ANGELES


    A woman was hospitalized earlier this month with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County in more than two decades, health officials said Tuesday.

    The woman, who was not identified, was admitted April 13 with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms. A blood test confirmed she had contracted the bacterial disease. The woman was placed on antibiotics and is in stable condition, officials said.

    Bubonic plague is not contagious, but if left untreated it can morph into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person. Bubonic plague is usually transmitted to humans from the bites of fleas infected by dead rodents.

    Health officials suspect the woman was exposed to fleas in her central Los Angeles home, said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the county's director of public health. The woman's family was also placed on antibiotics as a precaution, but there's no evidence they were infected.

    The case is unusual because it occurred in an urban area, Fielding said. Most bubonic plague outbreaks happen in rural communities.

    Health officials said there was no cause for panic because the disease is not easily transmissible.

    "There's no cause for alarm in the community," Fielding said.

    Health officials went to the woman's home Monday to trap squirrels and other wild animals. Blood samples from the animals will be sent to a lab to determine if any are infected.

    An estimated 10 to 20 Americans contract plague each year, mostly in rural communities. About one in seven cases is fatal, according to federal statistics.

    The last human cases of plague in Los Angeles County occurred in 1984 when three people contracted the disease. Two of those cases were travel-related and the third involved a person exposed to a sick animal. All three survived.

    Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1351. The last major urban outbreak in the U.S. occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-25, when at least 30 people died.

    In California, bubonic plague is prevalent among squirrels in the Angeles National Forest and other parks. Health officials regularly warn campers and hikers to take precaution against the disease by avoiding infected animals.

    The plague is considered a bioterrorism agent and state law requires that doctors report suspected cases to local health departments.
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    You can't think of LA accurately without the illegal immigration factor, so I posted this here.
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    Ive been watching the Mumps out break In Iowa. The only actice strain that it matches is in England. Hmmm how did it get here. I'm not going to say its from an Illegal but it does show what can happen when something bad is brought into this country and we dont detect it untill its to late and it starts to spread. Shows that we must have medical screening for all those that enter Our Country..
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    I just heard on the radio that at least two people with active mumps cases flew on commercial flights in March and early April. There are over 800 cases now.
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    Nice. I just heard on the news that someone landed in Miami tonight with a dead bird. It was an overseas flt I can't remember where it originated but it went through Milan, Italy I think.
    The dead bird has been quarantined and the person is in custody.

    Nothing to worry about.
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