Hmmmm 800 year gap and the last time was roughly 800 years ago...
I hear the plague is quite susceptible to modern antibiotics--unless biowarfare people have fooled around with it. They wouldn't do that, would they?
We’re living on borrowed time, it seems.
From what I remember reading years ago, the real problem with plague, aside from fleas, was the black rat (Rattus rattus) which nowadays has been largely displaced by the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).
It’s been so long, but I believe it had something to do with the black rat’s nesting behavior in human habitations. Simply put, the black rat is more an indoors sort of critter, while the brown rat is more outdoorsy. Needless to say, black rats, indoors, with plague-carrying fleas, is a recipe for disaster.
I thought they changed the genus from Yersinia to Pasturella. Antibiotics have worked, but if it ever becomes a superbug it could be a nightmare.
And, what is the purpose to exhume plague victims and reconstruct the bacteria?
>> Hmmmm 800 year gap and the last time was roughly 800 years ago...
Suddenly I don’t feel so good... say, was that a throw-uppy plague? or a cough-chunks-of-your-lungs-out plague?
D.C. is due...
It could wipe out a whole lot of things and bring this country back to a Constitutional basis for Government.
Needs to be when Congress is in Session, Obama et al are home, and the SCOTUS is in session....Hmmm...State of the Union time speaks to me...