10 cases of bubonic plague last year in the US. Think we might be worrying about the wrong thing.
You are just as guilty of spreading false dangers and paranoia. Why?
Facts.
Currently, the plague still infects several thousand people every year around the world, though most patients recover if treated early enough with antibiotics. When they compared the strain of plague preserved in this medieval DNA with the strain that recently killed some 60 people in Madagascar, however, they found something surprising. The medieval strain was no stronger than the recent one; in fact, their genetic codes matched almost exactly.
Scientists at Public Health England in Porton Down, argue that for the Black Death to have spread so quickly and killed so many victims with such devastating speed, it would have to have been airborne. Therefore, rather than bubonic plague, which is transmitted to humans through bites from infected rat fleas, they concluded that this must have been a pneumatic plague that made its way into the lungs of the infected and spread through coughs and sneezes.
Analysis of wills registered in the medieval City of London has shown that 60 percent of Londoners were wiped out by the Black Death from the autumn of 1348 to spring of 1349. A comparable rate of destruction would today kill some 5 million people...
Medieval “Black Death” Was Airborne, Scientists Say - History in the Headlines
Compared to the media manufactured threat of ebola, we should be more concerned about plague. Not overall but relative.
Only reason ebola made the news was blacks from Africa were coming here with it. Was entirely racially motivated.
