Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Plague in the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, the State varmint in California. They had a few campers get it in Yosemite:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189142/
There’s a colony with enzootic Yersinia Pestis in San Jose too.
But there is a whole bunch of importable troublemakers like Rift Valley Fever, Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, Zika, Ebola, Lassa Fever, Marburg Fever, Machupo Virus, Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever...among others.
The only certainty is that other viruses WILL come along. Hopefully our response won’t be this FUBAR next time.
Based upon my conversations with family and acquaintances, I think we'll screw it up just as bad next time.
We're good at repeating history in this country. Not sure why it's taught in schools any more as no one pays attention or learns from past mistakes.
We deserve our own destruction.
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