Two Confirmed Cases Of The Plague Reported In New Mexico

If you thought the Plague had been eradicated hundreds of years ago, you are sadly mistaken, as it’s now been reported that two new cases of it have shown up in New Mexico.

According to BroBible, both cases were reported in the Santa Fe County area, and are the second and third cases to be reported this year.

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Last year there were only four cases reported at all in New Mexico, so it’s slightly alarming that halfway through 2017 there have been three total.

The Plague, also known as the Black Death, killed anywhere between 75 and 200 million people in European countries between the years of 1346 and 1353.

Usually, the Plague is transferred to humans by fleas who are infected with it. The infected fleas latch onto rodents (rats, mice, etc.) and that’s how they come into contact with people.

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Early symptoms of the Plague include sudden fever, chills, headache, and weakness. Basically, you could think you have the flu, but really have the Black Death.

While there were a handful of reports of the Plague last year, the biggest pandemic worry of 2016 was definitely the Zika Virus.

It caused mass hysteria. Tropical wedding ceremonies had to be canceled, an innumerable amount of vacations were postponed, and the MLB even rescheduled several games between the Florida Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Every major news organization in the U.S. tried to convince the public that the Zika Virus was out to destroy us all.

Not that this was the first time this happened, though, since back in 2014, all those same major news outlets had us panicked over an outbreak of the Ebola Virus.

There were only 4 cases of Ebola in the United States, and every one of them was related in some way to overseas travel.

So will this happen again with the Plague? Probably, but rest assured it’s nowhere near a catastrophic event.