Please radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher okay so I guess

there's nothing to worry about but a person in Wyoming has now come down with

the pneumonic plague and reportedly caught it from the pet cat so I know plague

is nasty it's got a nasty reputation sure it's part of the deadliest pandemic

in record history but the risk of plague in the US is just low I mean there's

only according to this one to 17 cases each year of the pneumonic plague now

the bacteria that caused the plague have a life cycle involving rodents and fleas

both acting as long-term reservoirs for the bacteria and occasionally rodents

or fleas will transmit the bacteria to other species don't worry about it though

duh I mean look the pathogen that caused the black death is a form of the

bubonic plague not the pneumonic plague so that's only responsible for 75 to 200

million people who died but there's no evidence that the bacteria you know

was around oh wait yes there is evidence of it being around for the hunter

gatherers who died 5,000 years ago right now it's just around a few states

northern New Mexico northern Arizona southern Colorado California southern

Oregon far western end of Nevada just that area but this particular pneumonic

plague was in Wyoming weird snow one of those states that they listed anyway it

is pretty contagious it could be spread person to person through droplets in

the air or you know if I'm treated the bubonic plague spreads to the lungs

the subtle symptoms include fever headache and weakness and it also causes

rapidly developing pneumonia and shortness of breath chest pain cough sometimes

bloody mucus all the sounding familiar really to me of what's going on around

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