Thread: Bird Flu?
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Old 04-24-2006, 09:56 PM
TRSimon TRSimon is offline
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Originally posted by bluethunder
(using my best grandma voice)
and didn't they just document a new case of the bubonic plague?
(no lie, i SWORE i heard something to that effect on the news last week!)
Yeah, they did document a case in California, I believe. Fortunately it had not advanced to the stage where it becomes pneumonic plague, which is pretty much the black death type of situation (contagious and highly fatal).
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