Teen has bubonic plague

Being a teen is hard enough without having the bubonic plague...although he does now have a pretty good excuse to be surly and mope.

Sweet.

and it begins

Just because our modern medicine cures most illnesses alike, we lack the understanding that these types of bacteria/viruses are still affecting humans.

"If he did get the disease in Wyoming, it would be the first plague case in a human in Wyoming since 2004. Wyoming has had only five confirmed plague cases since 1978."

What the hell, Wyoming? Stop it.

Though isn't it funny how this plague that killed 2/3 of the population of Europe once upon a time is now easily treatable?

Ring around the rosey, pocket full of posey, ashes to ashes, WE ALL FALL DOWN!

Oh my goodness. I will not be going to Northern Wyoming any time soon. The Bubonic Plague is grodie- something must have been extremely unsanitary for that to happen.

OMG! That is crazy!

Eeewww. Creepy! I am staying far far away from Wyoming.

Is he emo ?

Holy shit, I hope they isolated him ASAP.
Crumbling economy, food and fuel riots, impending world war, and now looming plague. Just great...

thats what happens when you dont eat your vegetables. maybe he gets his plague badge now?

Although most of us are genetically hardlined to resist diseases, a disease rarely ever actually dies. There are diseases and germs and bacteria all around us and inside us that can kill us, but most of us have the immune system programmed to watch out for these. The thing to remember is everyone is GENETICALLY SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT. This means:

1. Some people can be born without these immunities.
2. A child or animal that wasn't breast feed may not develop a normal immune system, as babies receive the immunities they need from their mother's milk until they can create their own.
3. Some people are born unaffected by anything, but can be a carrier of a disease without knowing it. After all, if you show know symptoms of a disease and never get tested, how would you know? The boy scout could have come in contact with someone acting as a carrier, and the contact could have been by no means unsanitary, although that can always worsen things.

The big reason the plague hit so hard in europe in the first place can be attributed to crowding in cities, where it was known to hit the hardest. Plus it's not like a zombie movie where you only have to be bitten before you become. This disease has an airbourne strand, ingestion, and an absorbant strand, making it a trifecta of death and descruction.

In fact, many people during the plague actually figured out that if they stayed clean and open and with a nice breeze and away from other people, they didn't get anything and stayed (relatively) healthy. Relatively meaning they died at 40 from drinking beer from lead steins instead of dieing at 15 from plague, but i digress.

But like most sheep, the majority followed the guidance of the church which frowned upon this as irresponsible. Oh well, shows why we were all born to think differently.

Anyway, the point is to drop what you think you know about plagues or diseases. All things have a purpose, even if, like I believe, no central intelligence made it so. You just have to learn to avoid what you can. Watching a CDC video in kindergarten can make 99.99999999% of people avoid these problems.

Also, freezing is a concept not all are familiar with.

Like humans, if a disease is burned or boiled hot enough, it will die. But unlike humans (at least for current technology) when you freeze viri or bacteria, they don't die. They just, sort of pause their life cycle. So living in a climate where it gets cold, and I mean really cold, like solid earth cold, the pathogens may survive being frozen in solid earth. Anyway, scientists argue one thing or another. All you really need to do is watch after yourself. For this poor Boy Scout, it might not have been anything by his own doing that hurt him, other than agreeing to travel to Wyoming, which is a great state by the way, regardless of this poor fella's travesty.

Oh well. Treat it, examine it, learn from it. What else is there?

Thats not to say all bacteria and viri survive thawing. Some don't, but not enough for me to be willing to risk my life, that's for sure.

And I didn't mean genetically hardlined as in programmed. A lot of previous generations had to die for mainstream people to develop those immunities, so don't think I'm just some pompous fool without respect for sacrifice. Thanks.

just wait until all of the athletes from the olympics start coming down with bizarre illnesses.

population control 21st centruy style

Hey wait a minute, I live in Wyoming!

What the hell?!

guess i'm not going to Yellowstone after all....

well , that's the end of his love life . he'll have to move outta the state to stand a chance .

Um.....should I be getting as freaked out about this as I am? Seriously...Bubonic freakin Plague!?!? Black death?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

In the United States, the last urban plague epidemic occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-25. Since then, human plague in the United States has occurred as mostly scattered cases in rural areas (an average of 10 to 15 persons each year).

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/

First acne now this! Teens got it rough these days

yuck.