It may sound like a campy title to a old Hammer Film Horror Movie but unfortunately it’s real and it’s more common then you may think.
According to a article posted by Reuters on July 25, a Squirrel was found at the Angeles National Forest in California that was infected with the Plague. This has been the sixth squirrel located in Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains since 1995 to test positive for the disease.
Authorities have shut down the park for at least a week while they have a chance to dust the burrows for fleas, which carry the bacteria and test more squirrels in the area. The most recent squirrel was trapped on July 16 during a routine check in the park and was confirmed to be carrying the disease on July 23.
Called the “Black Death” in history books due to the disease ravaging the European continent during the Middle Ages. Yersina Pestis (aka Y. Pestis) also known as Plague was responsible for killing more the 25 million people.
There on on average 7 cases a year that are reported in the United States and if discovered within a timely manner can be treated with antibiotics. According to the Center Disease for Control, almost all cases have been found in the Western United States and fortunately at this time none of these cases have been fatal.
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</a> âIâm surprised by the complaints as all residents of Eilat are well prepared and the city is organized and ready,â Eilat Mayor Yitzhak Halevi told Israelâs Channel 10 television. âThere have been very few [hotel] cancellations.â
</a> Snowden, whose disclosures triggered an international furor over the reach of U.S. spy operations as part of its counterterrorism efforts, thanked Russia for his temporary asylum and declared that "the law is winning."
</a> âItâs bad policy to lean on excuses, but itâs also bad policy to ignore the facts. Weâve had at least 15 different guys on the DL, several of them multiple times. Itâs mostly been on offense. When youâre playing with those kinds of injuries, itâs tough to play against teams that are fairly healthy. Thatâs just a fact,â Steinbrenner said. âBut I will say the (recent 2-6) road trip was very disappointing to me. That was disappointing to me because we got some reinforcements back. We got (Alfonso) Soriano. A-Rod was back. (Curtis) Granderson was back. (Derek) Jeter was back for a bit. And the team as a whole just didnât perform. That was disappointing.
</a> Health, beauty and luxury retailing accounted for 82 percentof 2012 revenue at A.S. Watson, which has its roots in a smalldispensary set up in 1828 to provide free medical services tothe poor in the southern province of Guangdong.
</a> Demolition experts watch as the home of Jeff Bush, 37, is destroyed Sunday, March 3, 2013, after a sinkhole opened up underneath it late Thursday evening swallowing Bush, 37, in Seffner, Fla. The 20-foot-wide opening of the sinkhole was almost covered by the house, and rescuers said there were no signs of life since the hole opened Thursday night.
</a> India is eager to bring in global energy expertise to helpit unlock resources and cut import dependency. It will linklocal gas prices to global indexes from April 2014 in an effortto incentivise and attract producers and importers.
</a> Moutai declined to comment about its earnings or plans for the future, but a Wuliangye official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the company was shifting its focus away from official and military channels and towards the wider consumer market.
</a> Iomart today also announced it has acquired Leeds-based Backup Technologies (BTL) for £23 million. BTL, which safeguards businessesâ data, works with clients including Siemens, British Red Cross, Suzuki and Liverpool and Everton football clubs.
</a> Iran has agreed to talks on its nuclear program with topdiplomats from six world powers on Thursday, including U.S.Secretary of State John Kerry, increasing hopes Tehran'srelations with the United States could thaw.
</a> Dot 2: Daily News Albany Bureau Chief Kenneth Lovett reveals that the commission is not so independent after all. Sources tell Lovett that it dropped certain subpoenas under pressure from Cuomoâs top aides.
</a> Authorities say Lackey was seeking money when he killed 80-year-old Charles Newman at his Limestone County home. Court records show Newman made an emergency call to police the night of his death and could be heard saying, `'Leave me alone" and "What do you want?"
</a> A review by The Wall Street Journal of more than 100,000 of the roughly three million FOIA requests filed over the past five years, including all of those sent to the FDA, shows that investors use the process to troll for all kinds of information. They ask the Environmental Protection Agency about pollution regulations, the Department of Energy about grants for energy-efficient vehicles, and the Securities and Exchange Commission about whether publicly held companies are under investigation. Such requests are perfectly legal.
</a> That year the UN Security Council approved the first of four resolutions that ultimately imposed a global ban on the export of missile, nuclear and dual-use technologies to Iran. It also limited travel by senior Iranian officials, especially those of the Revolutionary Guard and its elite âQudsâ group, and froze the assets of several dozen prominent Iranian banks, companies, financiers and regime insiders.
</a> Davis went 0-for-2 with runners in scoring position. âBoth of them (those at-bats) were frustrating,â Davis said. âObviously, if I knew he was going to throw me a fastball (on 0-and-2) instead of a nasty breaking ball that I would have had to stay back on, I probably would have had a better swing at it. But thatâs the way it goes.â
</a> A 1998 peace deal mostly ended decades of sectarian strife in the British province but trouble still breaks out, particularly around the Orange parades which mark a 1690 Protestant victory over a Catholic king.
</a> This national park is known for its large deposits of petrified wood found over approximately 146 square miles. The colors of these fossils depend on the elements in the water or mud during the petrification process. For instance, the presence of manganese can create pink or orange hues, while cobalt will result in greens or blues.
</a> Ross is a freelance writer from the UK who loves to help people think creatively and see things from a different perspective. He currently lives in China, and when he isn't developing his writing skills, likes to spend time experiencing the many sights and sounds the country has to offer.
</a> "This was really the first batch of new schools in about 10 years," says Barbara Barzansky, co-secretary of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits medical schools. "The four have done just fine. We're certainly keeping an eye out as we go through the process for the others."
</a> Telefonica will use some of its shares to pay down some ofTelco's debt. But its voting rights in Telco will remainunchanged at 46 percent - and it will not be able to fully buyout its Telco partners - unless the plan is approved byantitrust regulators, including those in Brazil.
</a> "We will not allow the Supreme Court's recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
</a> The annual survey of the past 12 months by Britain's largest dog welfare charity indicated a 6% fall in the number of stray and abandoned animals picked up - 48% of those animals were successfully reunited with their owners.
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</a> In a fitting twist for Twitter, known for its blue birdmascot, Fry also has avian expertise. His postdoctoralfellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, focused onthe auditory cortex of zebra finches.
</a> Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, announced she is running for Senate in Wyoming in 2014. Her bid sets up an intra-GOP battle with Sen. Mike Enzi, a three-time incumbent. Click through to see more politicians that keep it in the family.
</a> Salford divisional commander Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: âThis was a dreadful case where the girl endured years of domestic exploitation at the hands of the Ashar family. They have exploited her disability and made it appear to the authorities that she was responsible for their own fraudulent behaviour. She was essentially kept in domestic servitude.
</a> More than 200,000 people had been detained in the camp by the time U.S. troops liberated it in 1945. Television footage showing piles of bodies and starved inmates in the camp was among the first images the world saw of the Holocaust crimes.
</a> Environmentalists much prefer clean, green California, withits enthusiasm for wind, solar and geothermal power, energyefficient building codes, and cap and trade programme forcutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
</a> "Next week we're going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room," Newell said at LinuxCon in New Orleans.
</a> Reaction poured in after Major League Baseball banned Braun without pay for the rest of the season and the postseason, the beginning of sanctions involving players reportedly tied to a Florida clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
</a> Sources also told Reuters that BlackBerry is seeking preliminary expressions of interest from other potential strategic buyers, which include Intel Corp and Asian technology companies LG and Samsung, by early this week.
</a> The victims ranged in age from 18 to 37. Three of the attacks occurred in the city's mostly poor South Side, where Thursday night's shootings by suspected gang members carrying an assault weapon took place.
</a> The insecure Karen (JoBeth Williams) looks around Alexâs memorial and tells Michael, âYouâd never get this many people to my funeral.â âIâll come,â Michael replies, âand Iâll bring a date.â
</a> Baxter has pledged to sell its global continuous renalreplacement therapy (CRRT) business including contracts,customer orders and manufacturing facilities, which accounts forabout 2 percent of its renal product sales.
</a> "It was a battle from pitch 1 -- and it showed early on," Westbrook said. "It's not really how you draw it up with a walk and a hit batsmen and a single and a homer. Put us in a bad spot against a good team and against a guy who's throwing the ball really well."
</a> "I am very content that we are going to get a good range of products in the market and that is going to help people who want to get on to the housing ladder, who want to own their own home, who can afford mortgage payments but can't currently get mortgages," he said.
</a> As of Monday's close, 31 companies representing 7.3 percentof S&P 500's market-cap had reported with revenues matchingexpectations and earnings beating by 6.2 percent, largely due to financial companies, according to Jonathan Golub, chief U.S.market strategist at RBC Capital Markets in New York.
</a> While some liberal and feminist groups objected at the time to Mr. Summers, Mr. Obama had his own reasons for giving the adviser's desired jobs to others. He chose Mr. Geithner for Treasury after being impressed by him, aides said, at their pre-election introduction. And the following August, he decided that for continuity in fragile economic times, he wanted Mr. Bernanke to stay at the Fed and Mr. Summers in the White House.
</a> Robinson said Women's Health Initiative participants tended to be healthy and well-educated, which may have bolstered their "cognitive reserve" and protected against memory loss - even without extra omega-3 fatty acids. It's possible, she added, that the fatty acids would make a bigger difference among less-advantaged women.
</a> On the whole, we are bullish on the way Sony handles the convertible laptop conundrum with the Sony VAIO Flip 15. The mid-lid hinge solves a lot of the problems that the Yoga-style flip introduces, and is much more modern than the old swing and pivot hinge on older convertible tablet/laptops. The overall weight and bulkiness of the unit needs to improve if this method is to become the form factor that users accept.
</a> As soon as Andy, Oliver and the others have surmised that something is amiss, another fight ensues: Wright, for reasons that go amusingly unaddressed, gives his heroes the combat nous of a kung fu display team, and soon the gents is awash with blue slime and mangled robot limbs. “It’s not us that’s changed, it’s the town,” Gary concludes.
</a> For decades, Myanmar has faced rebellions from several minority groups seeking autonomy. The Wa, in the country's north, are believed to have the biggest of the ethnic guerrilla armies, with as many as 30,000 men.
</a> While we're at it, you can also win tickets to Cardiff v Man City this Saturday. It's the Welsh side's first ever home Premier League game and there promises to be a cracking atmosphere inside the Cardiff City Stadium.
</a> "Bloggers usually underestimate how hard it is to make money from blogging because there are so many blogs out there ... They assume that just by putting the blog up, it will be enough. Kind of like the 'if you build it they will come' mentality. That's not likely to happen to most people, though," says Jacqueline Bodnar, a prolific blogger in Daytona Beach, Fla., and author of "Starting Your Career as a Professional Blogger."
</a> What’s more, he said the VA is responding to all the problems that have surfaced. For example, the VA has new leadership teams in place in Atlanta and Jackson, and is continuing to investigate what happened in Dallas.
</a> The Sox tired him out with their patience in a 38-pitch second inning and when he retired the side in order in the fifth he stood at 105 pitches â where the 38-year-old would usually come out of the game.
</a> In recent weeks, Apple has made applications around the world to trademark the name iWatch and hired Paul Deneve, the former chief executive of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent who will be working on "special projects" and reporting to Apple chief executive Tim Cook.
</a> Because although England are 31/3, even if they are bowled out for 100, they will still be 333 runs ahead, and who can honestly say that they would fancy the Aussies to make that on a dry, turning pitch? Still, England will naturally be hoping to set them a lot more than that. I expect quick scoring, another clatter of wickets today, and then England to knock a few Australians over sometime around tea.
</a> PASSENGERS could save hundreds of pounds by using private couriers to ship their luggage to their destination rather than paying baggage charges on budget airlines such as Ryanair, a consumer watchdog has claimed.
</a> The photograph, thrust to prominence when it ran on the cover of Newsweek, came to symbolize the defeat of a 1988 uprising in the nation then called Burma. The revolt's end cemented the power of the military, sent thousands of activists to prison and helped bring a future Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, to prominence.
</a> A U.S. government official said a federal system servinguninsured consumers in 36 states was functioning, but that alarge volume of online traffic was causing problems loadingpages. The official said the problems would be resolved withinhours. The Department of Health and Human Services said morethan 1 million people had visited the system's website,HealthCare.gov, in the past day, a five-fold increase.
</a> Afghans celebrates their national football team's victory in the South Asian Football Federation Championship, at the Kabul stadium on September 12, 2013. Revenge-seeking Afghanistan broke India's stranglehold on the SAFF title with an impressive 2-0 win over the two-time defending champions in Kathmandu on September 11.
</a> I don’t blame you if you knew nothing of all this until now; most of it, by happy coincidence, came out only long after public attention had moved on, and the government could no longer be damaged.
</a> "Thanks to our method, neuromorphic chips can be configured for a large class of behavior modes," Indiveri concluded, adding that the group's findings are "pivotal for the development of new brain-inspired technologies."
</a> "In your dealings on a daily basis for a decade with Jim Bulger, you learned that what he hated above all else was informants, didn't you?" Carney asked Weeks, who replied, "Yes. And we killed people for being informants."
</a> A day after the World Bank said in June that Angola had made"great strides" on transparency, Dos Santos put one of his sonsin charge of the sovereign wealth fund, raising concerns aboutnepotism that hardly combines with the promised openness.
</a> âIt was harder to not paint them in the rainbow than it was to choose to paint them,â Green Tregaro said. âIâm surprised by the big reactions, but Iâm happy about the big reaction because itâs mostly been very positive.â
</a> The fine line that the retailer is walking to address the concerns of both gun rights and gun control advocates reflects how heated the issue has become, particularly in light of recent mass shootings.
</a> In his last statement, Feldman blamed his victims for crimes and said, "I hereby sentence them both to death, which I carried out in August 1998," according to a statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
</a> The euro earlier found support on growing signs ItalianPrime Minister Enrico Letta would survive a confidence vote,which he subsequently did, after center-right leader SilvioBerlusconi backtracked on attempts to bring down the governmentand said his party would support Letta.
</a> Historian Stanley Karnow, who interviewed Giap in Hanoi in 1990, quoted him as saying: "We were not strong enough to drive out a half-million American troops, but that wasn't our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war."
</a> Gavin Brown, for the Scottish Conservatives, bemoaned the lack of help for businesses and warned that more and more money was being taken from Scottish business through business rates.“There should have been a direct focus on the economy,” he said.
</a> For furloughed workers considering a career move, General Assembly, an educational institution for aspiring entrepreneurs and Web developers, was offering a free 30-day trial for classes in technology, design and business.
</a> "The circumstances and the issues that were a hindrance inthe past seem to be getting resolved. So I think there's ahigher probability that potentially there's something in theworks," said Anand Ramachandran, a telecoms analyst at Barclaysin Singapore.
</a> "For Wal-Mart, we would like to see a high-quality agreement, which is that no sectors and no products are excluded. That there are no compromises that leak into the process for the purpose of speed," Scott Price, chief executive of the U.S. retailer in Asia, told Reuters.
</a> There is no disputing this: The two voices have become part of the Bombers brand. Sterling and Waldman have a following with Yankee fans who love their broadcasts home-cooked. And when a team is switching radio stations, itâs better served by having broadcasting continuity rather than blowing up the booth.
</a> "Physicians should address patients' motivations for out-of-hospital delivery by continuously improving safe and compassionate care of pregnant, fetal, and neonatal patients in the hospital setting," the study concluded.
</a> Claims data, however, have been thrown into disarray since an update to government computer systems in California, the nation's most populous state, and Nevada created a backlog in the processing of new claims two weeks ago.
</a> Local media responded to the outrage by pointing out that cooking fumes were in fact responsible for up to 20 percent of the particulate matter in Beijing's air, citing a report published by the Chinese Academy of Science.
</a> Houghton said the military was also "guilty of creating bureaucracy, people checking up on others and holding people to account unnecessarily" and needed to slim down HQ operations. "I don't think any of this is beyond the wit of man to get right," he told the magazine.
</a> "Nobody could've got past photographers, a keypad, asecurity guard and a closed inner door, and out again, on luck alone," Striketells Robin. "Thing is, that degree of premeditation doesn't fit with such aslapdash murder."