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To: MinorityRepublican
Folks shouldn't get so smug ~ at a minimum 4 billion people have no natural immunity to Yersinia pestis (Black Plague). Recently the entire genome of the bacteria that killed off one-third to half the people in Europe in the 1300s was derived from DNA left in the marrow of plague victims. It is not any different today than it was way back then.

Fortunately those who survived that period already had protective genes in place and those were passed on to us. Alas, those not living in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China or Central Asia were never affected by the Black Plague. We don't know if they are immune or not, but they probably aren't.

If something interfered with tetracycline production and distribution around the world the Plague would kill billions in just a few years.

14 posted on 10/17/2011 4:18:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Folks shouldn’t get so smug ~ at a minimum 4 billion people have no natural immunity to Yersinia pestis (Black Plague).

And it wasnt so long ago that the Spanish Flu knocked off a few millions

Nature has a way of keeping the worlds population regulated it seems.

These liberals make me laugh - its their duty to take God’s business into their own hands.


18 posted on 10/17/2011 4:31:21 PM PDT by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: muawiyah
It is not any different today than it was way back then.

Unless, of course, you take into account that Yersinia pestis is a bacteria that simple penicillin takes out.

23 posted on 10/17/2011 4:59:41 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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