• Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    As the article says, there are typically a few cases a year in the US. It’s actually endemic in the wild. No need to panic just from a case or two popping up.

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      Must be confirmation bias, then. It’s usually not in the news all that much. Like, I knew it wasn’t unheard of, just thought it was more rare than a few cases a year (was thinking more like a few per decade).

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        It pops up in the news more than you think. Especially if they feel it’s a slow enough news day.

        Bubonic plague is really not a disease to be concerned about in 2024 compared to thinks like influenza, which we’re doing very little about and which is far more likely to become an untreatable pandemic.

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          Bubonic plague is really not a disease to be concerned about in 2024

          https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17782-plague

          Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague. It’s also the most survivable. With quick antibiotic treatment, you have about a 95% chance of recovering from bubonic plague.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic

          However, the effectiveness and easy access to antibiotics have also led to their overuse[12] and some bacteria have evolved resistance to them.[1][13][14][15] The World Health Organization has classified antimicrobial resistance as a widespread “serious threat [that] is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country”.[16] Global deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance numbered 1.27 million in 2019.[17]

          We could yet wind up with things the way they were!

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      And the more we encroach on the wild, the more chance we have of catching things that used to stay in the wild.