The Black Plague

**dreamur** · November 13th, 2019 09:45 PM

Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs.
Pneumonic -- the kind the Chinese patients have -- is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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**ray_noel** · November 13th, 2019 09:56 PM

Ang mahirap nyan madami pumupuntanna chinese sa pinas... they can be the carrier...

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**bloowolf** · November 13th, 2019 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by dreamur

Two people just got the plague in China — yes, the Black Death plague

Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs.
Pneumonic -- the kind the Chinese patients have -- is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Old world disease ang Bubonic plague. Seems like it reemerged. That is not a good sign.
Based on the article, the best way to prevent this is by controlling the fleas on our dogs. Good thing there are numerous, once a month medicines against ticks & fleas now. We can’t rely on antibiotics since superbugs are developing.

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**dr. d** · November 16th, 2019 10:33 AM

diseases thought to be eradicated or dormant, do crop up from time to time in liblib na pooks...

**uls** · November 16th, 2019 10:45 AM

viruses and bacteria and other microorganisms have been on earth far longer than homo sapien

200,000 yrs palang tayo billions of years sila

mas magaling sila mag adapt kesa tayo

do we seriously expect humans can wipe them out?

tayo pa mauna ma-wipe out

**uls** · November 16th, 2019 10:51 AM

see how bacteria mutate and overcome antibiotics

kung sa evolutionary success, mas successful sila kesa sa atin

**dr. d** · November 16th, 2019 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by uls

see how bacteria mutate and overcome antibiotics

kung sa evolutionary success, mas successful sila kesa sa atin

ang bacteria kasi,
walang senado, congreso, parliamento..
walang endless debate.
"just doh it" sila.
heh heh.

**uls** · November 16th, 2019 11:05 AM

if there's another mass extinction event

like a planet-killer size asteroid crash into earth

ubos tayo lahat

and after the dust settles, micro organisms will still exist

**dr. d** · November 16th, 2019 11:10 AM

the cockroach daw, will out-survive us all, including nuclear holocaust.

**bloowolf** · November 16th, 2019 11:11 AM

Articles say the bubonic plague crops up once in a while but are effectively treated by modern Antibios, so it never got the chance to have that universal epidemic level in the 1800s since antibios haven’t been invented yet at the time. Small pox (a viral disease) has been eradicated in the ‘70s I think.

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