Bubonic plague in Los Angeles...CDC link HERE.
Nope, not bioterror; probably picked up from a squirrel.
People don' t realize that plague is endemic not only in Asia (e.g. VietNam) but in the deserts of the SouthWest...every year docs on the Navajo reservation see a few cases...although I didn't see any when I worked with the Apache we always worried about it when someone came in with big lymph nodes and a fever.
The main danger is if a doc uses Penicillin or a Quinolone, which are commonly used for staph/strep that cause large lymph nodes in the groin instead of Tetracycline or Gentamycin/Streptomycin. Penicillin and Cipro won't work.
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