Pneumonic Plague Outbreak in China

[jimmy olsen]

Black Death 2: Electic Boogaloo?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8183335.stm

A town in the far-western Qinghai province of China has been sealed off after pneumonic plague killed three people.

Police have set up checkpoints around Ziketan, as medics disinfect the area and kill rats and insects.

Vivian Tan from the World Health Organization in Beijing said she was ''definitely concerned'' because this form of pneumonic plague ''is really quite lethal.''

[Caliga]

I dunno if Pneumonic Plague is a form of the Black Death (I know Bubonic Plague has several variants), but the Black Death is not 'extinct', Tim... people get it yearly in India and I think there are several cases of it annually in the United States even. 

[Malthus]

I dunno if Pneumonic Plague is a form of the Black Death (I know Bubonic Plague has several variants), but the Black Death is not 'extinct', Tim... people get it yearly in India and I think there are several cases of it annually in the United States even. 

There are reservours of Plague in ground-dwelling rodent communities in N. America and Mongolia. Most cases of plague are caused by people handling dead pararie dogs and ground squirrels, in which the disease is endemic.

[Caliga]

Mmm'kay, so Tim, you might want to stop playing with dead rodents. 

[Grey Fox]

It's World War Z baby! Max Brooks was right.

Quick to the Rockies!

[Darth Wagtaros]

I believe the plague is endemic to Arizoner and af ew other places and is dealt with by antibiotics.

[Caliga]

It's easily treatable now with simple antibiotics as long as it is quickly diagnosed IIRC.

[Neil]

China would be a much nicer place if half the population died.

[lustindarkness]

It's World War Z baby! Max Brooks was right.

Quick to the Rockies!

My first thought. I may read that again to help me get ready for the Z War.

[The Brain]

But is bubonic plague really what caused the Black Death? Jury, out?