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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Fri Jul 26, 2013, 05:47 AM Jul 2013

Plague-infected squirrel shuts Los Angeles park [View all]

Source: BBC News

Parts of a national forest in California have been evacuated and closed down after a squirrel was found to be infected with the plague.

Los Angeles officials say visitors were ordered to leave the Angeles National Forest as a precaution after the rodent was trapped in a routine check.

They said no people in the area were believed to have been infected with the disease, known as the Black Death.

The plague killed as many as 25 million Europeans during the Middle Ages.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23460709

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Plague-infected squirrel shuts Los Angeles park [View all] dipsydoodle Jul 2013 OP

everything old is new again -yersinia pestis rearing it's ugly head leftyohiolib Jul 2013 #1

Last major outbreak of the plague in the U.S. was in L.A. in 1924-25. 37 dead. hobbit709 Jul 2013 #2

The "Black Death" was a specific outburst of plague... Deep13 Jul 2013 #3

Sad that the news outlet reporting this Tien1985 Jul 2013 #4

The L.A. Times has the story BumRushDaShow Jul 2013 #6

Because it's not exactly news? Retrograde Jul 2013 #12

EXACTLY, I thought everyone knew that plague is endemic in a lot of California and you are Ecumenist Jul 2013 #26

It's happened before - more rodents Baclava Jul 2013 #5

While this might uncommon for L.A... Javaman Jul 2013 #7

EEK! Squinch Jul 2013 #8

It's coming, we're overdue for a cull ConcernedCanuk Jul 2013 #9

Bubonic plague is quite treatable, and very preventable Scootaloo Jul 2013 #28

k+r ...nt TeeYiYi Jul 2013 #10

Bring out yer dead! *clang* Thav Jul 2013 #11

But I'm not dead yet. nt awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #18

If one squirrel was infected, there are bound to be more. n/t RebelOne Jul 2013 #13

The Angeles National Forest is actually in the mountains above L.A. KamaAina Jul 2013 #14

Thousands visit or travel through the San Gabriel's each week. denbot Jul 2013 #15

But not millions KamaAina Jul 2013 #19

I think we have another case in NYC Kennah Jul 2013 #16

A fourth form of the disease KamaAina Jul 2013 #20

A pandemic is too horrible to even contemplate. branford Jul 2013 #29

.... DeSwiss Jul 2013 #22

Some believe Black Death may really have been Ebola Kennah Jul 2013 #17

Is this a ''Biblical Plague?'' DeSwiss Jul 2013 #21

Squirrels around here carry the Red Death. Union Scribe Jul 2013 #23

It's endemic among squirrels and other rodents in the Southwest US Hekate Jul 2013 #24

It's obviously because of Politicalboi Jul 2013 #25

How did you get a squirrel as a partner ? dipsydoodle Jul 2013 #27

Politicalboi could be nuts Kennah Jul 2013 #30