Avoid This Kind of Coverage Like the Plague
ULY 10, 2020
JIM NAURECKAS
Bubonic Plague Found in a Herder in Inner Mongolia, China Says, read the New York Times headline (7/6/20). A city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages, the subhead elaborated. The storys lead described the case as a reminder of how even as the world battles a pandemic caused by a novel virus, old threats remain.
In the articles last paragraph, Times Hong Kong correspondent Austin Ramzy acknowledged that cases of the plague are not so novel:
Plague cases are found in limited numbers across much of the world. In the United States, about seven cases, usually the bubonic form, are reported on average each year, most often in rural areas of Western states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
The Times was not the only Western outlet to see the Inner Mongolian plague case as a story. Bloomberg (7/5/20) seems to have kicked off the coverage, in a story originally headlined Does Bubonic Plague Still Exist? China Confirms Case. The Bloomberg report noted:
While the ailment is treatable, unlike the novel pathogen which has caused the ongoing pandemic, Chinese health authorities are wary of any infectious disease spreading after a hard-fought containment of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Glamrock
(11,803 posts)There's not enough shit on our plates, already? Bubonic plague now? Fucking really? C'mon 2021! I don't think I've ever prayed for a year to end! May we live in interesting times as the curse goes....
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)"Plague cases are found in limited numbers across much of the world. In the United States, about seven cases, usually the bubonic form, are reported on average each year, most often in rural areas of Western states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says"
It's always been on our plate ...
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)And my most profuse apologies to our wonderful Judi Lynn for all her hard work keepin us sinners edumacated! In me own defense, you see a headline and it's, "aaaahhhhh fuckitall! "
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)raccoon
(31,130 posts)At least we know how to treat bubonic plague. We dont know how to Treat COVID-19.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)curable. Give it some doxycycline, and it folds like a cheap card table.
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)I stop at Badlands National Park..(wonderful) and on the road is a colony of Prairie Dogs --- cute as hell.
AND there is a sign saying plague exists in the colony. Do Not Enter.
Of course, there are a couple of people with cameras, traipsing merrily among the mounds.