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November 7th, 2002, 01:54 AM
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NYC Medical Scare: Two Being Treated At Area Hospital For Bubonic Plague
New York-WABC, November 6, 2002) — Two patients at a New York City hospital have been diagnosed with a dangerous disease not seen in this region in decades. Eyewitness News has learned that doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center are caring for the two people who have the Bubonic plague. Jim Dolan reports from Beth Israel with more.
The Bubonic plague claimed millions of lives in Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages. Now sources confirm for Eyewitness News the probable presence of the plague in two patients here in New York. The pair is a married couple from New Mexico who were in the city on vacation.
Doctors tell Eyewitness News that a microbiology test confirmed their fears that the couple was indeed suffering from the Bubonic plague. The couple has been isolated to prevent the further spread of the disease.
Doctors say while the female patient is out of danger, her husband is in extremely critical condition. They say he was admitted with a fever of 105 degrees. High fever is one of the symptoms of the Bubonic plague.
The city and state health department were joined by the Centers for Disease Control in their investigation into how the couple contracted the disease. The state health department in Sante Fe, New Mexico, where the couple lives, tested rodents on their property this summer. Apparently many of those rodents tested positive for the Bubonic plague.
Doctors say they believe the couple was infected in their home state after sleeping in a sleeping bags that had been outdoors on their property for several weeks. Those sleeping bags are now being tested.
Officials say there are 20 to 30 cases of Bubonic plague worldwide each year. If caught early, the disease is very treatable, but it is often mistaken for a cold. If treatment is delayed, the plague can, of course, be fatal.
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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 06, 2002 10:04 PM: Message edited by: Pammy ]</font>
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November 7th, 2002, 03:24 AM
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New York City?
Couple from New Mexico?
The Plague?
Anyone heard from the Yourdon?s lately?
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November 7th, 2002, 04:58 PM
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Ring around the rosie
A pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
All fall down
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November 7th, 2002, 06:12 PM
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No worries, there are a least 5 to 10 cases of plague in northern NM every year. the rodents in the mountains there seem to carry the disease regularly.
This couple's mistake was leaving their sleeping bags where rodents can get in them.
Remember the Hanta virus? Same geography...
Not much chance of it around here in ABQ, and if you are mindful of what can happen, you can prevent what this couple is going through...
Chasin' the mouse through the house...
The Dog
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November 7th, 2002, 09:25 PM
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There are several versions out there lars. Newist to me:
The ring was a circle of people around the rosie, who was a victim of the Black Death (bubonic and pneumonic plague), with reddened face and eyes. The posie was the bag of prophylactic herbs and flowers that people carried; "ashes, ashes" was the sound of sneezing. The last phrase speaks for itself.
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November 7th, 2002, 09:57 PM
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Dog, don't you touch that mouse! [img]confused.gif[/img]
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November 8th, 2002, 04:08 AM
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I see it's an urban legend that the "ring around the rosie" ditty derives from the European Black Death plague.
I was just testing you guys.
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November 9th, 2002, 04:06 AM
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