A 16-year-old boy in Colorado who appeared to have the common flu has died from a rare case of the plague, officials said.
Taylor Gaes' illness didn't present with the telltale sign of the infection -- swollen lymph nodes -- which would have alerted officials to the illness sooner, said Katie O'Donnell, a Larimer County Health Department spokeswoman.
Instead, he suffered from a fever and muscle aches, which at first made his sickness look like the flu.
The plague is "very rare, which makes it hard to diagnose," O'Donnell said Saturday. Taylor died June 8 but officials revealed his illness Friday.
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The Black Plague? Oh, well, what's a little Plague and Ebola here and there. The important thing is to keep shipping all those undocumented Muslim Extremists into the country as fast as we can, whether they have Ebola or plague or not! Just GET THEM HERE!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe're pretty much doomed as a country unless somebody takes up a gauntlet...
It seems that one of the 'projects' our government has been working on underground has made it to the surface.
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