[Old Professer]

If it were easily spread, there would likely be over 18,000 cases in 6 months.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The real problem isn't so much the disease (except for those directly involved.) The problem is the lack of vector identification. Were the vector know, one could give advice about what to avoid.

In the hanta virus outbreak here in northern NM (land of the flea, home of the plague), within a week, the virus was identified, and the main transmission vector (breathing dried mouse urine) was noted. Now people take precautions and there are few cases. (Spraying a woodpile with a weak Chlorox solution isn't a bad idea; neither is washing barn floors, etc. with the same.)

[Mother Abigail]

In January there were 20 cases
31 in February,
75 in March. 

In the first 6 days of April there were 74

In the last four days our level of confidence in all data has fell to the point of unreliable.


The case fatality rate remains at or near 100%. 

MA

[PistolPaknMama]

If it were easily spread, there would likely be over 18,000 cases in 6 months

Well I didn't want to ask a dumb question, but 218 people in 6 months over such a wide area hardly seems like panic proportions. I'm thinking more along the same lines as you are, unless I'm missing something.