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by mehmehshoe 4581 days ago
Funny, I've been wondering when that little bug was going to surface again. Interesting that it sprung up in a relatively secluded island nation which would be comparatively easy to quarantine. If that hit in the slums of India or Brazil...CDC would be losing their shit right now.

Speaking of the CDC, nothing about the outbreak on their website right now. Neither in the news or outbreak sections. I also checked the travel section and the plague does not show up on the radar as a disease with a history in that nation.
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Fomite 4581 days ago
Yeah...that's really not how the CDC works.

Also, if you refer to this map, you'll find that "There's plague in Madagascar" really isn't, well, news to the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/plague/images/WorldPlagueMapWebSmall.jpg

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tsotha 4581 days ago
Bubonic plague is a common problem with wildlife in California, which has which has wild reservoirs. CDC isn't "losing their shit" because this is something they already manage.
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Fomite 4581 days ago
California and much of the Western U.S. It's actually gotten worse in recent years as urban areas push into formerly wild areas.
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