Eek! That headline is pretty alarming. I'm glad to read that modern medicine can cure it.
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| Author: | Rumpole [ Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Man gets black plague from a mouse |
Man gets black plague from a mouse 4:10 PM Friday Jun 15, 2012 A man is critically ill in a hospital in the American state of Oregon with suspected plague, the disease that caused the Black Death, which wiped out 25 million people in 14th-century Europe. The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, was reported to have been bitten on the hand while trying to save a mouse caught by a stray cat. He fell ill with a fever several days later and was admitted to hospital where doctors said he had classic symptoms of the disease. Laboratory tests are being carried out. ....more at link http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/ar ... d=10813276 |
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| Author: | Maltese Mama [ Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Man gets black plague from a mouse |
Eek! That headline is pretty alarming. I'm glad to read that modern medicine can cure it.
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| Author: | Rumpole [ Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Man gets black plague from a mouse |
Yes my cats bring me mice, rats (and rabbits) all the time... let them go alive in the house at times. Who know what diseases they might carry. I am normally conscious of hygiene anyway... but its a reminder And .... I will be having a human to cat talk with the cats.... not that they listen to me 
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