Welcome to Colorado... Beware of the Fleas...

Here is a little known fact,

Boulder county is right now exterminating large groups of fleas...

Because (Wait for it), they are infected with plague...

Yes, that plague... Bubonic Plague... Black Death.

Here... in Colorado.

Now, This isn't due to a leak in some super-top secret Level 4 Biohazard facility in Boulder, apparently Plague has lived happily in North America for hundreds of years, brought over by the rats that travel on ships across the Atlantic...

Now, (And here's a quote) Colorado has only had 45 cases of plague since 1951, and only 6 of those are attributed to prarie dogs, and of those 6, only 1 has been a fatality... (No word on how many of the original 45 have been fatalities, the article was talking about Prarie dogs... hence the concentration on the 6).

Interesting how something so terrifying can be your neighbor all of your life and you never knew it. How many time does this happen in your life?

Here we live with one of the most destructive diseases in human history. A slate-wiper, one that killed 137 million people. 2 million people a year.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

Of course, and here's another bet-you-didn't-know thing; The Influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed 25 Million people in one year...

Certainly something to ponder...

---Me.