for now.
The Black Death is a historic plague which took out fully one third of the population of Europe long ago.
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HISTORY: The plague disease, caused by Yersinia pestis, is enzootic (commonly present) in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including marmots, in various areas including Central Asia, Kurdistan, Western Asia, Northern India, Madagascar, and Uganda. Nestorian graves dating to 1338–1339 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India.
In October 2010, medical geneticists suggested that all three of the great waves of the plague originated in China. In China, the 13th-century Mongol conquest caused a decline in farming and trading. However, economic recovery had been observed at the beginning of the 14th century. In the 1330s, a large number of natural disasters and plagues led to widespread famine, starting in 1331, with a deadly plague arriving soon after. Epidemics that may have included plague killed an estimated 25 million Chinese and other Asians during the 15 years before it reached Constantinople in 1347.
EPIDEMIOLOGY: The Black Death is caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium, resulting in several forms of plague, including the bubonic plague. It's origin is thought to be central Asia, but it is clear from reading various "experts" that the historians are just guessing.
In men and women alike it first shows itself by the emergence of certain tumours in the groin or armpits, some of which grow as large as a common apple, others as an egg. From the two said parts of the body this deadly gavocciolo soon begins to propagate and spread itself in all directions indifferently; after which the form of the malady begins to change, black spots making their appearance in many cases on the arm or the thigh or elsewhere, now few and large, now minute and numerous. As the gavocciolo has been and still is an infallible token of approaching death, such also are these spots on whomsoever they show themselves.
If the bubo discharges, recovery is possible. This suggests that lancing the bubo is a possible aid in recovery.
This is followed by acute fever and vomiting of blood. Most victims die two to seven days after initial infection. Freckle-like spots and rashes, which could be caused by flea-bites, are identified as another potential sign of the plague.
The mechanism by which Y. pestis was usually transmitted was established in 1898 by Paul-Louis Simond and was found to involve the bites of fleas whose midguts had become obstructed by replicating Y. pestis several days after feeding on an infected host. This blockage results in starvation and aggressive feeding behavior by the fleas, which repeatedly attempt to clear their blockage by regurgitation, resulting in thousands of plague bacteria being flushed into the feeding site, infecting the host. The bubonic plague mechanism was also dependent on two populations of rodents: one resistant to the disease, which act as hosts, keeping the disease endemic, and a second that lack resistance. When the second population dies, the fleas move on to other hosts, including people, thus creating a human epidemic.
Of course, humans are critical vectors in the cycle of spread of the disease as fleas are infected by humans who have become infected.
Also the pathogen can be aerosolized into the air by sneezing and coughing, so humans are well known to pass the disease to one another. For this reason quarantine and restricting of large public gatherings are urgently encouraged.
Death from the disease has killed victims in as little as one day, but two to seven days is the normal time lapse before death. The disease can be stopped by IV antibiotics if caught soon enough.
PREVENTION: Though the USA and Europe are always very slow in implementing precautions, as we saw with Ebola in Africa, all flights into the USA from the epidemic nations must be stopped. Passengers from those nations must be 100% stopped, and American tourists who visit those nations need to be quarantined upon their arrival back in the USA. It may be advised to make travel to infected nations a felony criminal offense.
This is critical because Europe is obsessed with letting immigrants take over their world, and tropical diseases have jumped enormoursly since Angela Merkel set Europe on a course of self-destruction with immigrants. If the Leftist Democrats have their way in the USA you can PLAN on a massive epidemic in this country sooner or later.
The usual precautions you would take to avoid getting the flu during that season are in order now all year round. Carry hand cleaner, use public restrooms as little as possible, and beware of restaurants which show any signs of poor hygiene. To these usual precautions, add a flea light trap to your home at night. In Texas fleas are everywhere during dry times. Give you dog a flea repellent treatment by mouth regularly, and bathe pets regularly. Simply soaking your dog down with water, and keeping him wet for a while, will drown fleas. They will also jump off onto you as you bathe him, so take precautions. Go after rodents around your home with traps or poison. Do not use poison where livestock or pets are present. Spray your shoes or boots when going outdoors walking in high grass. I wear gum boots all year outdoors and spray them with repellent.
On a personal level, there is nothing, other than the above, needed in the way of precautions until you hear several cases have broken out in your immediate area. If this does happen anywhere in the USA, I shall be giving you precautions you can take based on my experience with Cholera epidemics in Ethiopia.
For now, please keep in mind that the Center for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health, the official agencies of the US Government who warn of of epidemic outbreaks in the USA, will lie, lie, lie when they have the first Black Death cases in the USA. This is because the first reaction of kings is to deny the plague. This happened all over Europe long ago, and it has happened in the USA under several Presidencies. To this day AIDS is totally covered up in the USA by draconian laws threatening doctors who report case numbers to the public.
President Donald Trump will try to cover up any cases in the USA. I know he will do this because the financial recovery now in progress will be stopped dead in the water if people start avoiding infection by taking precautions. Trump needs the economy to keep booming in order to get re-elected. This is not a Republican issue. All Presidents do this.
It is imperative that you type "Black Death" into Google News regularly to keep track on the progress of regress of the epidemic so that you can sense when the plague may have reached the USA. To a great degree, you are on your own with this sort of thing.
Again, there is NO need to panic now. The epidemic is localized for now and far away. The problem is, the world has become everyone's back yard as air travel prices have dropped against income rises, making it possible for people from formerly poor nations to wander the world for any reason.
We are watching and I will try to keep you updated.
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