User talk:Andrea LaDona

I would like to respond with input concerning the nursery rhyme: Ring around the Rosie.

Ring around the rosie, Pocket full of posey's Achoos Achoos We all fall down.

Ring around the rosie is referring to the first symptoms of bubonic plague. It begins when the abdominal lymph glands suppurate (undergo the formation of pus; fester) and bleed. The bruising around this red area is a bluish ring around the bleeding lymph glands. The symbol of death before the Lily was the Posey. The sequelae to bubonic plague is pneumonic plague. The mortality rate for bubonic plague is around 48-50%. When bubonic plague changes and becomes pneumonic plague it is no longer spread by an infected flea leaving the carcass of the rat it infected, it becomes airborne and is spread by sneezing. Pneumonic plague has a mortality rate of 95-99%, we all fall down.

Ring around the rosie~ suppurated abdominal lymph gland. Pocket full of posey's~ symbol of death. Achoos Achoos (sneezing)~ becomes pneumonic plague. We all fall down~ 95-99% mortality rate.