California resident tests positive for plague
California resident tests positive for plague
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California resident tests positive for plague
With massive cuts to Healthcare it is only a matter of time before the US is fully medieval again.
This happens every so often, no big deal. We've gotten much better at treating it since that one time it killed everybody.
Until RFK decide those treatments cause paper cuts and bans them.
Broad spectrum antibiotics like doxycycline do wonders for infections when they aren't everywhere all the time evolving. Thankfully the plague is rare enough it should never become an issue again.
Quiet! Do you want them to MAPA? Make America Plagued Again?
Doesn't like over half of Europeans (and their descendants) have partial immunity because of what happened eight hundred years ago?
chuckles - I'm in danger!
The reason it isn't a huge threat is isn't because we've gotten so much better at treating it, it's that our hygiene has improved so much. Y. pestis is spread primarily by flea bites from fleas that have picked up the germ from infected mice. Since we generally do our best to avoid spending time with rodents in every day life and we try to keep our house pets free of fleas, there isn't a significant vector for the germ to infect people. The few cases we see in the states are generally outliers.
I mean our hygiene has gotten better, but the actual reason it isn't that much of a threat anymore is because it's a bacterial infection and we now have antibiotics.
Bacterial diseases are still worrisome due to some strains adapting a resistance to certain antibiotics, but they are much more manageable than viral outbreaks.
All true. I'm a little generous in how I apply the meaning of treatment and that's a bad habit to get into. Our overall approach to prevention of disease as well as reduction in the morbidity and mortality associated with the diseases we do get has generally improved (with some notable exceptions when we take steps backward) in the last few centuries.
That one time?
Everyone forgets the plague of Justinian that killed everybody, and the late bronze age plague that killed (checks notes) everybody.
The reason why most people associate the plague with the 14th century outbreak is because of how well documented that one was, and how well preserved the documentation is. It was a worldwide plague, BTW, with it affecting Eastern Europe and the Middle East quite badly, too.
The plague of Justinian killed even more people, but it happened during the dark ages. BTW the rise of Islam and rapid conquest of the first wave of Islamic conquest probably happened as it did because of the massive drop in manpower as a result of all the deaths (that and the continuous wars between the Byzantines and Persians that also wore out the two and left them vulnerable).
What's up, fellow that guy? Knew I was tempting fate saying it like that. I appreciate your enthusiasm for historical accuracy.
Also the hypothesized late neolithic one that also killed everyone.
Or the sweats. Lots of plagues happened besides the black death.
Right. Those two times we went extinct and had to evolve all over again.
I had bubonic plague when I was 11.
There was an outbreak in South Australia in 1983. You know those pictures of mice overrunning hay bales you see every now and then ? That's old footage from the SA mice plague in 1983.
Telecom disconnected our phone at the street and we were told to stay in the house. Then I was transferred to the bowels of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, basement level 2, through airlocks and these people in moon suits.
They kept it secret because in 1983 people though bubonic plague was a made up medieval thing like vampires and werewolves. It wasn't until an outbreak in India in 1991 that it became widely known as a real thing.
Wow, that was fucking intense.
Also why the hell would people think it isn't real? Unlike vampires and werewolves, the black death was a preposterously well-documented illness.