Peru Bubonic Plague Outbreak Infects 31

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 3, 2010
Peru Bubonic Plague Outbreak Infects 31
Only Fatality So Far is Boy, 14, in Northern Costal Province; 1st Outbreak of Plague in Peru Since 1994

(AP) Peru's health minister says an outbreak of plague has killed a 14-year-old boy and infected at least 31 people in a northern coastal province.

Health Minister Oscar Ugarte says authorities are screening sugar and fish meal exports from Ascope province, located about 325 miles northwest of Lima. Popular Chicama beach isn't far away.

Ugarte says the boy, who had Down syndrome, died of bubonic plague July 26.

He said Monday that most of the infections are bubonic plague, with four cases of pneumonic plague. The former is transmitted by flea bites, the latter by airborne contagion. The disease is curable if treated early with antibiotics.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/03/health/main6738520.shtml

[raccoon]

1. Anybody seen Randall Flagg? nt

[Political_Junkie]

2. LOL.

I think I saw him on Fox News last night.

[proteus_lives]

7. The Crimson King Lives!

[babydollhead]

3. my son is in PERU right now!

[Posteritatis]

5. One of my best friends is in that town right now; ugh. (nt)

[martymar64]

4. The Black Death strikes again!

Before the days of antibiotics, this news would've rightly sent a chill down everyone's spine.

[Posteritatis]

6. I wouldn't exactly consider it a walk in the park today. (nt)