California Resident Tests Positive for Plague. What to Know About the Disease

5 mdp2021 5 8/22/2025, 6:30:12 AM time.com ↗

Comments (5)

dlcarrier · 2h ago
That's a pretty common occurrence, especially in the mountains.
mdp2021 · 1h ago
> pretty common

The interpretation of "common" will vary:

> [In recent decades, a]n average of seven human plague cases are reported each year in the United States

> The last urban plague epidemic in the United States occurred in Los Angeles from 1924 through 1925

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

dlcarrier · 53m ago
It's pretty common for it to have happened to someone, in a given year. It's so unlikely to happen to any given individual, that it's not worth worrying about.
mdp2021 · 33m ago
It is important to know that some places still have endemic infection in rodents.

For example, in a world were some people (even those of a medical background, looking at data) die of rabies because "oh look a wild animal approaching with a sad face, he wants a little cuddle" ("it's sick, madam").

mdp2021 · 1h ago
(And I really would like to understand the reason under the following expression:

> though 50% of cases occur in people ages 12–45

...that's already near half of the USA population.)