Arizona man likely dies of plague, what you need to know

[Ishmael]

Originally Posted by The WosMan

According to the CDC the american west has the potential to be filled with bubonic plague. Prarie dogs would be the most likely carrier and have been found to carry it.

I live in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico and maintain microwave radio sites on mountaintops around the state. Apparently here, plague is confined to the high plains east of the Monzano Mountains, but we get 5-10 plague cases a year here along with my major worry of hantavirus. I've had to have three of my sites fumigated and decontaminated due to Kangaroo rat infestation(a big hantavirus carrier). Of course, the tradeoff is you trade those two for West Nile Virus in the river valley. It just goes to show what my Daddy always said,

"A man born to hang ain't gonna die of drowning."