Bubonic Plague in Los Angeles
by Jeff Davis
Along with the influx of Third World immigrants, mostly illegal, we are also experiencing an influx of exotic and usually disgusting and/or lethal diseases such as Dengue fever, malaria and West Nile virus. There have been rumors of airplanes secretly quarantined by the CDC for fear of the Ebola or Marburg virus. (Who knows what happens to the passengers and crew if the virus is confirmed…) Now our government’s complete failure to control this country’s borders has led to a real blast from the past–the Black Death itself!
A recent news article reports “A woman is in stable condition with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County since 1984, health officials said Tuesday. The woman, who was not identified, was admitted to a hospital last Thursday with a fever, swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms.” Given the high percentage of Latinos in Los Angeles, it’s a good bet she brought the disease with her from some poor village in Mexico. The bubonic plague exists naturally in northern Mexico and the southwest deserts of the US. In the US an effort is usually made to control ground squirrels which carry the disease if it is detected. In Mexico, it’s doubtful if anything is done.
This country now has extensive sanitation and pest control problems in areas containing large illegal immigrant populations, and this is causing a number of diseases to spread. We are currently awaiting the first case of Chinese avian flu to arrive in this country, which is a close cousin to the infamous Spanish flu of the 1918 epidemic which killed 600,000 Americans in under six months.
The same article continues “A blood test confirmed the bacterial disease, and she was given antibiotics, officials said. Bubonic plague is not contagious, but if left untreated it can morph into pneumonic plague, which is. Bubonic plague is usually transmitted to humans from the bites of fleas infected by rodents… Bubonic plague is believed to have been the ‘Black Death’ that killed 25 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1351.”
The Plague has been extinct in Europe since the last outbreak in 1720 in Marseilles, thanks to modern civilization and sanitation, but still occurs fairly often in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia. As the diseased populations of these continents pour across our uncontrolled borders in scenes reminiscent of “Camp of the Saints,” they bring their sicknesses with them. We’ve just been lucky so far, but luck tends to run out and our politicians are doing nothing to protect us.