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They have quite a lot of information on their website. What more do you want them to do about a disease that fewer than 5 people contracted in 2016?
Good point. And plague has been endemic here for decades without flaring up much beyond those 2016 numbers. I doubt the Department of Health considers it a major issue, at least not compared to all the other problems they have on their plate.
what's interesting about that map is it looks like the USA is the only 1st World country
that has an issue with the plague.
big powerful country and still has the plague that wiped out half of europe centuries
ago. I guess it's hard to irradicate, or it is not a high priority to do so.
It's not exactly the same disease...the modern plague is spread only by contact with infected fleas, and cannot be transmitted aerially (through coughing, etc.) the way the Black Death eventually was. It's also much less virulent than the medieval strain. Above all, plague can for the most part can be effectively treated with antibiotics. With modern medicine and standards of hygiene, it's simply not the risk it once was.
It's not exactly the same disease...the modern plague is spread only by contact with infected fleas, and cannot be transmitted aerially (through coughing, etc.) the way the Black Death eventually was. It's also much less virulent than the medieval strain. Above all, plague can for the most part can be effectively treated with antibiotics. With modern medicine and standards of hygiene, it's simply not the risk it once was.
I agree-- plague sounds scary, but it doesn't present the same risk to public health as Lyme disease, for example, which is far more widespread. I was surprised to read that while Lyme disease only very rarely causes death, it still claimed more lives than plague over the same period from about 2000-2015. There were 12 deaths attributed to plague during that 15 year period, while 114 death records listed Lyme disease as a contributing factor from 1999-2003 (only a 4-year period), with 23 of those listing Lyme as the underlying cause of death.
what's interesting about that map is it looks like the USA is the only 1st World country
that has an issue with the plague.
big powerful country and still has the plague that wiped out half of europe centuries
ago. I guess it's hard to irradicate, or it is not a high priority to do so.
I don't think other countries have "eradicated" it at all. How would you anyway? It's a regional environmental thing. Look at how many really poor countries have no cases.
People of European ancestry are likely to be resistant. I'm pretty sure I've had it. I *wanted* to die for a week or two, but got better.
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