I was watching ANOTHER bubonic (is this right) plague special on the History Channel and i'd like to ask " What if the Plague were to for some miraculous reason start again in like central Europe or Africa or Asia or even north america." and how would we solve this deadly problem?
The plague now has a few different, fairly simple, anti-biotic treatments, readily available in most of the world. Compounding this with the prevalent medical knowledge of the plague, most cases in the past 30 years have caused little harm to the regions affected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_%28 ... Treatments Go to numbers 5, 8, and 9
Not a vaccine for say, but a course of treatment that stops it from proliferating and lowers the mortality rates. In the past few years even LA has been hit with documented cases of the plague and not even I knew that before a few days ago. Even when it hit India in the 70s it only killed like 30 people.
OK thats actually very reassuring. but what if the plague were to say change (if they can do that, science is not my strong point lol).
Realistically there are bigger pathological threats out there then the bubonic plague. With the amount of study and work that has been done towards it, it would be very doubtful that even a mutated strain would come anywhere near the black death or the two other minor plagues.
We have our own plague, man. Its called AIDS. I bet history will remember us living during it is similar fashion to the way it remembers they plague.
well looking at those charts I'd say they will remember as the fat guys who all died from an epidemic of heart attacks :roll:
Eh to the fat guys... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cardi ... HO2004.svg Look at where the darker colors are... Not really in the areas you'd think to be fat
I didn't look up real statistics and I was exaggerating. My point is that we have a lot of very deadly diseases. Consider this. What if they had AIDS during plague times? It would be a lot more deadly in the past than with modern medicine to treat it.
Immunosuppresion viruses aren't as deadly as other pathogens. Mortality rates in the underdeveloped world are low compared to mortality rates of say the 1918 h1n1 outbreak or the bubonic plague
I fear an outbreak of parasite related ailments. They share the same effects as bacterial and viral infections, only most medicines don't work. Besides that a doctor will test you for a million and one bacterial diseases (exaggeration of course) before they check for parasites.
