http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/06/man_likely_sickened_by_plague.html

A man hospitalized in Bend is likely suffering from the plague, marking the fifth case in Oregon since 1995.

The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, fell ill several days after being bitten while trying to get a mouse away from a stray cat. The man is now being treated at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend, where he was listed in critical condition on Tuesday.

"This can be a serious illness," said Emilio DeBess,  Oregon's public health veterinarian. "But it is treatable with antibiotics, and it's also preventable."

The Black Death raged through Europe during the Middle Ages, killing about a third of the population. Today, the disease is rare, but the bacteria have never disappeared.

The man, who lives in rural Crook County, was bitten Saturday, June 2. He developed a fever a few days later. By Friday, June 8, he was so sick that he checked himself into St. Charles Medical Center-Redmond. He was later transferred to the larger facility in Bend.

Karen Yeargain,  communicable disease coordinator with Crook County Health Department, said lab tests are being done to confirm whether the man has the plague, but she said he is suffering from classic symptoms.

There's one bacterium that causes the disease -- Yersinia pestis -- but it can develop into three types of illnesses depending on how an individual's body reacts. Initially, the man had swollen lymph nodes -- a sign of bubonic plague -- but now he's showing signs of septicemic  plague, when the bacteria multiply in the bloodstream. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bleeding mouth, nose or rectum and dying tissue. The third type is pneumonic plague, which affects the lungs.

DeBess said it's not clear whether the man was bitten by the mouse or by the cat. The feline died, and its body has been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing. The cat was abandoned in the man's neighborhood about six years ago and stuck around. Yeargain said the man and his family had a lot of contact with it. He was bitten on the hand.

"Taking a mouse out of a cat's mouth is probably not a good idea," DeBess said.

Plague bacteria are carried by fleas, which typically infest rodents. People can become infected through flea bites or through contact with an infected animal. Some animals, including dogs, that have been exposed to the bacteria carry antibodies but do not get the plague and are not infectious.

DeBess said Oregon has a record of plague cases dating to 1934, with about a case a year and some periods when no cases appear. The prevalence of the disease depends in part on the weather and food supplies. When rodents flourish, so do fleas. That increases the likelihood of infection.

A total of four people in Oregon died from the plague since 1934, DeBess said.

The four people sickened in the past 17 years

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I always, when I was there, quite convincingly found.
A country with ancient windmills and friendly small towns,
with Bami, custard, Frikandeln and fried croquettes. In Edam get updated very often the cheese and in Amsterdam the canals, I stand blue, white and red on Fraunhofer in wooden shoes and costumes, I'm happy to swim and I remain also like to camp, so they are great neighbors, and yet we are worlds apart. I love Super Skunk and I love sauce special . But one thing come which I am mega nationally. It came over the years and now it sits quite firmly. Solangs to football goes, I hate Holland like the plague. degrees at major Turniern shall be not geniern it. can pass through it What worse when we lose a against? We both ham Rudi ours, we ham its never spat on, a good German thinks European, except when he kick kuckt. I love Super Skunk and I love sauce special. But one thing come which I am mega nationally. It came over the years and now it is stuck pretty much. Solangs to football goes, I hate Holland like the plague. I know you're there smarter, you're not a redneck, always relaxed, even wenns a zero for the The Netherlands stands. Who gets upset because football is a poor idiot. fuck yourself, if I see Oranje, I see now sometimes red. I love Super Skunk and I love sauce special. But one thing come which I am mega nationally. It was over the years and now it is stuck pretty much. Solangs to football goes, I hate Holland like the plague. Solangs comes to football, I hate Holland like the plague. Goodbye Orange, i wish you a lot more luck in the next tournament!"

Hrm if we'd had Google Translate in the 1800s, WWI would have broken out in 1906 and lasted til 1925

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That prosecutor is going crazy.

Our Sublime Supreme Court ruled in the 80s that lying to judges was not perjury if it doesn't matter.

It is against the Constitution to make bail a punishment.  You can deny bail for things like murder where the defendant is going to go over the hill...BUT if you allow bail it must be reasonable.

Zimmerman deceived the judge...
Zimmerman got low bail...
Zimmerman was out with more money than the bail judge would have liked... $150,000 more
Zimmerman didn't run to Cuba...
Zimmerman came back when called...
Zimmerman went back to jail.

So, what's the big deal? I think that's what a judge is going to ask in the perjury case.

If the Missus says "Yeah but I don't think I had to tell you cause that's not his escape money that's his trial money so I don't have to tell you so you can burn it for bail" then I think she walks.  Cause even IF the judge found out and raised Z's bail, same result.

Lemme clarify -- if it werne't bail, but compensation like child support or debt payment, yeah he's screwed.  But the thing about bail is that it ain't confiscatory or punitive.  The judge is barred by the US Constitution from saying "well I guess bail of $50,000 is ok for your crime WHAT YOU HAVE MORE MONEY???GIMME"

play goalie

they can always employ 1/3 of Europe as customs agents, another 3rd as lawyers suing about customs enforcement and the last 3rd will smuggle

being Europe smugglers will be assigned quotas and routes

  so true

i'm going to Houm for some peace and quiet

if each of us steals only what we can carry in our hands, it will fight obesity, pollution and litter
also inflation

"somebody will exchange dogs"

One of the ways the Feds nailed Henry Hill was taping his phone and getting hours of conversations like that, offering to trade dogs and golf clubs for opals.  They said they put business experts on to say the value of the items discussed has no bearing on the usual value of the items in the marketplace.  So it must be a code.  And who bothers to talk in code on the phone?

...i'm looking forward to a Happy Ending... problem-free...blue skies and zippity doo dah

you weren't raised American and probably haven't heard "no I in team" since age 4