“The patient dies, the infection dies.”
Not in this case. The bodies of third world countries that can survive at a very basic level of daily life will continue to nourish and spread the bacteria.
As I said, not a normal situation within our usual thinking/analytic standards :-)) we are dealing with the lunatic Hojatieh and Islamic Jihadists who live by 14th century rules and lifestyles. Those people will survive as they are still mostly hunter gatherers of yore. Except among some of their elite.
It would be an environmentalist’s dream world...
Very little exaggeration there.
Except for the low level of residual radiation, most will be utterly unable to tell the difference after a total atomic attack.