SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Officials are closing some areas on the south shore of Lake Tahoe after some chipmunks tested positive for plague.that the Taylor Creek Visitor Center, Kiva Beach and their parking areas will be off limits through Friday.
During that time, the U.S. Forest Service will be conducting vector control treatments to those areas. El Dorado County spokeswoman Carla Hass said the chipmunks that were tested had no contact with any people.According to the El Dorado County Public Health, plague is naturally present in some areas of California.
People hiking and doing other outdoor activities should avoid contact with animals. They should do the same for their pets. Plague is an infectious bacterial disease that tends to be spread by chipmunks, other wild rodents and their fleas. For humans, symptoms can show up within two weeks of exposure to an infected animal. They include fever, nausea, weakness and swollen lymph nodes.
When murder hornets won't catch on ...
What in the he-
Javatheresister Unbelievable, Lake Tahoe and it’s surroundings is a pristine area.
ALVINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
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🔊 Attention All Campers! Do NOT feed the chipmunks 🐿
Who’s job is it to test chipmunks? Sounds kinda cool
This isn’t anything new, quit being inflammatory
It's official. These are then end times. *rips bong*
Chipmunks have been trying to one-up humans since Alvin & his gang had their break-through album in the 70s.
Welp, hello Armageddon!
Can we send antivaxxers there? I hear it's no worse than the flu
Clearly, 2021 is trying to outdo 2020.
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Can we ship those chipmunks to the south?
The Chipmunks are saying that God will protect them.
I'm sure Hoss Cartwright is not a happy camper about now.
End of days. Fires Floods Pandemics Plague now…Chipmunks I’m done
Move over covid.
Ok, who was eating the chipmunks and had gotten sick?
Well, that just takes the cake. Chipmunks, the cutest of all the woodland creatures, are plague carriers.
Pretty sure nobody had that on their Bingo Card.
This is the best story NBC News can post - over and over? Pathetic.
to make enemies surrender, Mongol soldiers used to throw caracasses of dead animals infected with plague, inside city walls! Mongols got plague from India and took it to Europe. It spread and killed 25% of Europe’s population!
Whats a chipmunk?
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You may now check “rodents with plague” off your 2121 Bingo card.
Will it ever end
And now the gassing begins
LOCKDOWN!
checks notes, 2021, yep. makes sense.
I hope it doesn’t damage their music and film careers,their best work is yet to come
Humanity is now at the point in its existence where it gets to live various post-apocalyptic fictional stories, from contagion and now 👇🏽 I hope we never get to the Pacific Rim phase
Republicans are finished. Another thing for them to catch 😂
Send in the Republicans!
Black plague!!!!!!
BINGO! Finally filled my card!!
Too sad 😞
Fuck
Is that the new variant?
So sad, wish the Forests were better cared for. To the East, congestion is also happening. Basically, the chipmunks are suffering environmental stress. It WILL take All USA CITIZENS to heal Mother Nature.
NOT THE CHIPPYS
Da fuuuhhh?
Now people are scared of a chipmunk Why am I the one in the asylum haha
Plague infested chipmunks. Didn’t have that on my 2021 bingo card. Damn.
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It happens every year somewhere in the US. A child died in Colorado from it a few days ago.
Gross! Alvin and Theodore got the plague. Camus wrote about stuff like this. Rodents getting sick in Oran was the first sign. Nasty business. Time to swill corn liquor.
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Oh good lord, 2021 is really giving 2020 a run for its money.
Don't worry your lovely government will try to cover this up some how too. Cause you know they all about that. It's NBC News if someone didn't say this happens all the time there. I would call this Mis-information! Cause Government told us so today! Sad to hear tho, this story!
JESUS CHRIST! Positive for the plague?!
Trying to find a punk band here... the Tahoe Plaguemonks?
Did they ever think about testing the rats that were roaming the streets freely in San Francisco due to the homeless problem and human feces on the streets?
Is this like the current plague we're still in, the black plague, or a completely different one?
This happens every year. Bubonic plague is easily treated if caught quickly. 🤷♀️ Thank goodness for penicillin.
MlarSergio 🤯
But we can't close the border due to Covid?
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How long will it be before the “but muh rights” crowd is racing to Lake Tahoe bc they will not be denied bc of a hoax?
C'mon!!!!
No way no
Wtf
Well ain’t that a kick in the head, chipmunks and the plague. When does the chipmunk plague denying start? You can’t stop me from camping with plagued chipmunks! If the chipmunks won’t wear a mask, neither will I! Thanks Biden!
I’m not doing a bingo card this year.
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I don't think people understand that rodents and fleas were one of the major causes of the bubonic plague. Although antibiotics can cure plague, your prognosis or outlook will not be the same before you endured plague.
Plague? Like plague, plague? As jonstewart likes to say 'The boobanz'