• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    27 天前

    Plague is still around, but people don’t really die from it any more because of modern medicine.

    Very fitting that the Americans are about to get rid of modern medicine.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      27 天前

      There are places along the highway in northern California that have signs warning you not to walk into the forest because you could get the plague.

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        27 天前

        I camped at a spot on a road trip by the border of Arizona and California and all around the campsite it warned of squirrels with plague, we felt uneasy all night

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          26 天前

          It’s not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it’s any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.

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      There are three types of black death :

      Bubonic plague, you get in glands in your armpits - rarely fatal nowadays.

      Pneumonic plague in your lungs, which can be fatal if not treated early.

      Haemhorragic plague in the brain, which is almost always fatal. Its only painful for a day, then you don’t notice it. 40 days later, your brain literally explodes.