curl-6 on 08 May 2019
John2290 said:
Do you think the disease was a success or a failure? It killed a bunch of people, really hit society hard but got wiped off the faxe of the planet yet still finds a way to creep back into humans. Success or failure? Stalemate? |
As an organism, the plague's purpose isn't to kill people, but to survive. It's doing a good job of that as it has a large reservoir of animal hosts in which to live.
| spurgeonryan said: So the actual plague? Does the rest of the world have to worry? |
No. The conditions required for bubonic plague to become epidemic don't really exist in modern industrialized nations. It already occurs sporadically around the world and sometimes causes minor epidemics in places like Madagascar but it will never again sweep the world like it did with the Black Death. Nowadays it's completely treatable with antibiotics.
