Hmmmm 800 year gap and the last time was roughly 800 years ago...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
This is so scary that you can’t even be afraid of it.
If it happens it happens and I would expect Guam to blow up its airport to keep the pathogen off the island
Close in time to the plague of Islam.
China has been plaguing us for centuries...
Well ‘RATS’!
Sheesh.
5.56mm
It’s treatable now with antibiotics, though there have been some resistant strands.
We’re much more effective at both treating, and identifying the source. But I do think we have forgotten how to quarantine or lost the will to. We didn’t do so good with SARS.
It’s treatable now with antibiotics, though there have been some resistant strands.
We’re much more effective at both treating, and identifying the source. But I do think we have forgotten how to quarantine or lost the will to. We didn’t do so good with SARS.
So, about 130 million died of the plague in the history of mankind.
How many died because of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Islam in that same time span?
There are rodent reservoirs in the American West as well.
The plague has sickened and even killed people on the Navaho Reservation and Eastern Oregon off the top of my head.
I think Athens lost the Peloponnesian war because of the plague. Thucydides had the plague and described it in detail. It does not fit any known disease.
I think archaeologists studied some of the bodies buried 2500 years ago and scientists decided it was typhoid but I think they are wrong.
There was also a world wide flu pandemic in 1918 which killed millions.
The good news about the Black Death is it greatly increased the value of labor and led to more individual freedom for commoners.
If detected and recognized early and aggressively treated pneumonic
plague caused by Yersinia Pestis can be kept from becoming a pandemic.
Modern medicine can actually treat the plague with great success if caught early and public healyh measures can prevent it’s spread. The key is
early aggressive response. As with bird flu and other respiratory illnesses
that easily transfer via droplet/airborne means people infected and at risk
will have to exercise self control as in wear masks, avoid travel and other acts that some idiots will view as an infringement of rights rather than an
exercise in personal responsibility. Pandemic lebels of illness may require
the imposition of some very unsavory controls to prevent spread.
Such impositions would grant unsavory characters an opportunity to abuse
their powers and trigger resistance to needed protocols in the name of
“Freedom”. Panic, death and destruction could follow.
Cats were a blessing during rodent infested times.
No wonder that evil superstitions got people to hate them. That’s the devil doing the devil thing.
Plague is treatable. My child survived bubonic plague.
Originally, I thought it was the flu but an alert intern drew a blood culture which showed the real cause of her disease. It takes 3 days to grow a culture and that’s when I almost lost my child. Waiting for the results is what’s deadly.
The vector was a flea from a dead squirrel. Stay away from dead animals.
According to ancient astronaut theorists............