[News] Suspected case of bubonic plague in China's Inner Mongolia

[Stat Brother]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/...content=2020-07-06T15:40:07&utm_medium=social


Come on Mother Earth, I accept we haven't been great tenants, but please cut us some slack, not for me but...





...what about the children.

 

[Weststander]

Wrong thread. I thought this was about CP’s training ground, with health issues again.

 

[AmexRuislip]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/...content=2020-07-06T15:40:07&utm_medium=social


Come on Mother Earth, I accept we haven't been great tenants, but please cut us some slack, not for me but...





...what about the children.

It'll be locusts over Croydon next

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

The WHO (not Roger Daltrey and co.) report that there are between 1,000 and 3,000 cases of bubonic plague a year. China had two cases last year, but that didn't make the news. Now we are in full on China is evil and full of disease mode, a stubbed toe-nail in Beijing is probably a sign the 4 horsemen of apocalypse are on their way.

 

[Swansman]

Would get zero attention a normal year as its not that uncommon.

 

[Stat Brother]

The WHO (not Roger Daltrey and co.) report that there are between 1,000 and 3,000 cases of bubonic plague a year. China had two cases last year, but that didn't make the news. Now we are in full on China is evil and full of disease mode, a stubbed toe-nail in Beijing is probably a sign the 4 horsemen of apocalypse are on their way.

I did wonder if that was the case but I was being incredibly lazy.

 

[studio150]

I did wonder if that was the case but I was being incredibly lazy.

Also antibodies work against Bubonic Plague so little to no chance of a pandemic.

 

[portlock seagull]

Would get zero attention a normal year as its not that uncommon.

Totally true. Even been screened for it when visiting Mauritius few years ago because there was an outbreak on ‘neighbouring’ Seychelles. As you say, not uncommon. Approx 10 die from it in the US each year I think. Prairie dogs (gophers to most of us, like the one in caddyshack!) are carriers (see what I did there? )

One thing CV19 has done is increase people’s knowledge of diseases, where’s before you needed a passing interest at least to understand these virus manifestations and plagues have never really gone away. And more are coming. Read some great books on in the past and more recently.

 

[Stat Brother]

Also antibodies work against Bubonic Plague so little to no chance of a pandemic.

I didn't know that.

 

[Boys 9d]

I wonder why the emphasis on the plague being in China when it was first detected in the neighbouring country of (Outer) Mongolia and spread to the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia ?

 

[Swansman]

I wonder why the emphasis on the plague being in China when it was first detected in the neighbouring country of (Outer) Mongolia and spread to the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia ?

Could be political, could also be because most Americans likely are unaware of the existence of Mongolia.

 

[Mr Banana]

I wonder why the emphasis on the plague being in China when it was first detected in the neighbouring country of (Outer) Mongolia and spread to the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia ?

The selectiveness put me in mind of the way the possible Kansas origins of the 1918 have been completely overlooked in recent months.

Maybe that's a good thing. The underlying nationalism of trying to name where a worldwide outbreak began seems as irrelevant as it is arbitrary, especially given the lack of worthwhile evidence. Assuming the next most dangerous threat will be blamed on South America, which seems a reasonable bet given the incursions into natural habitats going on there, it'll be interesting to see if similar jingoistic stuff goes on in response.

 

[Saunders]

I did wonder if that was the case but I was being incredibly lazy.

There is being lazy and there is being comatose. You really got suckered on this one, I thought the same when I saw this last week. Yes last week, but saw from comments this is curable and not uncommon.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[MJsGhost]

 

[OzMike]

Mongolia is a different country to China, unless they have annexed that too !
Is there such a thing as China's Mongolia ?

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

On average 7 bubonic plague cases in the US each year....
Source CDC.


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[Robdinho]

Mongolia is a different country to China, unless they have annexed that too !
Is there such a thing as China's Mongolia ?

"Inner Mongolia" is part of China, the part that borders the country of Mongolia

 

[OzMike]

"Inner Mongolia" is part of China, the part that borders the country of Mongolia

Well, I never knew that.

 

[Robdinho]

Well, I never knew that.

The media might be ridiculous (and this story is ridiculous; as has been said, bubonic plague crops up all the time, so making it headline news now is a bit sinister) but at least we're not at the "Fox news" stage here where they're getting whole countries mixed up!