What I’d like to know is what defenses do we have...can’t help but think those in big cities are most vulnerable if this thing gets lose.
Was just looking at a history of the black plague on Wikipedia and it appears as though it bypassed Poland, of all places.
One of the statistics that I remember from the book is that certain groups of people had a higher survival rate with certain viruses. People who ate meat seemed to survive at a higher rate. Thus the upper class. Viruses rob you of protein and resupplying protein is helpful. Some viruses attack the heart ( and heart valves) so fast there is not much hope. I think it was the swine flu in the 1800's that could kill a healthy train car full of passengers in one hour if an infected person got on board when the virus was hot.