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This is the sort of news that I read several times and was sure that I was missing something, because it had to Not Be Right.

But as heart attacks go, I'm glad she's non-critical and bored in the hospital. Still. Damn.

Best wishes and a speedy recovery.

I personally will come, cut your clothes off, and stick a needle in your arm! (I’m on duty tomorrow.)

Am I a bad person for running through a list of my friends and trying to remember who is into that?

I mean, probably not having you in particular cut their clothing off, but, yanno, the overall scene tone.

I don't think any of them are into Moose though. I suspect they're think that was weird.

Regarding plague (if we mean Yersina pestis in particular, and not just plague as a generic term for nasti nasti diseases): NO does have a resident population of black rats (Rattus rattus) which can carry plague-bearing fleas, unlike the more common brown rats (R. norvegicus). Black rats, also called tree rats and roof rats, like being up high. With all the flood waters, the people have also been up high as possible, often sheltering in the same places as the rats.

I'm not saying it's a likely problem, as I don't think plague is all that common in the US southeast (the SW, yes, it's pretty well settled in CA through western TX) but if it is there, this was a perfect set up for exposing humans to plague bearing rodents.

I don't think it incubates very long though, so if it was coming, we would have seen cases by now, wouldn't we?

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