Bubonic plague outbreak, Ugli Mongolia. (City and plane lock down)

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John2290 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

You should consider that of all the great epidemic diseases of the past, only smallpox has been completely eradicated, the others, including the plague, started being kept under control, with foci spreading less and less, first with better urban and personal hygiene, then, later, with scientific progress (greatest progress came not only from improvements of medicine, but also from widespread replacement of open sewers with buried ones, that weren't a novelty, ancient Romans and other ancient civilisations built them, but in the Middle Ages there had been a regression in hygiene in most parts of Europe, but also Marseille soap and the adoption of cotton, allowing to wash clothes more frequently, helped a lot, like other forms of prevention).

Well doesn't thst still put it in the success camp then cause for all our tools against diseases and not allowing it to have a home anywhere near us it still manages to survive. Small pox = failure, Plague = success I would reckon but the human race wins against both.  

If the measure for success or failure is survival then every disease is a success except for the two we've so far exterminated; Smallpox and Rinderpest. Polio and Guinea Worm are on the brink but the last isolated pockets are proving the hardest to finish off due to factors like danger to health workers, lack of accessibility, and poor infrastructure in the remaining few endemic countries.