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Keep an eye on this one folks. It is far, far nastier than COVID.
In Britain it used to be called The Black Death and killed many, many people in the 1300's. Apparently, on average it still causes the disease in 7 people per year but can be treated with antibiotics (at least this form can...) It is spread by fleas on rodents.
It's still endemic in various parts of the world and it still surprises why more pandemics have not occurred since the last great one. There had to have been a change in environment and some would say and that the disease presentation is also different.
Pneumonic plague is more transmissible because of the respiratory component. That form is lessened and some would say it's because of the organism being more attenuated.
It would have been really interesting to see how the original genome changed to its present form.
There was bubonic plague in squirrels at one point when I was little. They were docile and we were playing with them. A rep from the County came out and said to stop playing with the squirrels and to scrub ourselves down in the bath. Lived to tell the tale.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is a good historical novel about the 1665-66 Bubonic plague. It was inspired by a true event - an English village that quarantined itself after the villagers realized the plague had arrived. The village still stands and is a tourist attraction.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is a good historical novel about the 1665-66 Bubonic plague. It was inspired by a true event - an English village that quarantined itself after the villagers realized the plague had arrived. The village still stands and is a tourist attraction.
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Studies of that village, and the reason people survived, lead to a genetic breakthrough in the treatment of HIV.
Keep an eye on this one folks. It is far, far nastier than COVID.
In Britain it used to be called The Black Death and killed many, many people in the 1300's. Apparently, on average it still causes the disease in 7 people per year but can be treated with antibiotics (at least this form can...) It is spread by fleas on rodents.
This is found in several areas of the US. It is completely treatable and nowhere near as nasty as CoViD. Stick to the whackjob forum where you can find suckers to believe your BS.
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks is a good historical novel about the 1665-66 Bubonic plague. It was inspired by a true event - an English village that quarantined itself after the villagers realized the plague had arrived. The village still stands and is a tourist attraction.
I absolutely love this book! And I've been to that village!
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