[Pearls Before Swine]

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?

[MrEdd]

Absolutely.

[null and void]

Nahhhh, never...

[P.O.E.]

Reminds me of Gilbert & Sullivan:

Captain.
......
At the fury of a gale,
And I’m never, never sick at sea!

Chorus.
What, never?

Captain.
No, never!

Chorus.
What, never?

Captain.
Hardly ever!

[eartrumpet]

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?

I don't even think they can do something like that.

Uh oh.

Researchers were able to isolate miniscule DNA fragments from the 1500-year-old teeth of two victims of the Plague of Justinian who were buried in Bavaria, Germany. They then reconstructed the genome of the oldest Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for these plagues, and compared it to a database of genomes of more than a hundred contemporary strains.

[Inyo-Mono]

The rodent caused plague that we are familiar with today had nothing to due with the "plague" in Europe in the 1500 and 1600s. Read Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott & Christopher Duncan.