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Quote Originally Posted by vestige View Post
To my (admittedly weak) understanding.... bubonic plague is transmitted by fleas...
right or wrong?
The primary problem is fleas, but can be transmitted by contact with deal animals and or humans (deal or alive) and fluid's.
Actually PNEUMONIC PLAGUE, as I understand it, cuts the fleas out of the picture and takes off as AIRBORNE PERSON TO PERSON disease!
That is WHY they say ANYONE can catch pneumonic plague, no matter how "clean" and removed from any dirty, buggy, environment and how much they avoid touching sick people. All healthy people have to do is BREATHE where a (LIVING, BREATHING,) infected person with pneumonic plague has been!!
The incredibly short "time from exposure to death'' period (12-24 HOURS!) is the ONLY "saving grace", in that it should die out quickly if people wear N95 masks and are preventing from assembling, riding public transportation, and essentially avoid each other for a week or two. Curing it with antibiotics is usually easy, except it is usually too far progressed towards death by the time people realize what hit them!
Getting people to self-isolate as much as possible, suspending everything that CAN be suspended (school, athletics, shopping, meetings whatever) is the biggest obstacle to stopping it. That is even harder to do in an Urban environment!
They also need to get everyone (at least in the cities!) into N95 face masks (WITHOUT EXHALE VALVES!) ASAP, like LAST WEEK!
Rural citizens have it much easier isolating from each other than city dwellers.
Masks must, MUST cover the NOSE or it is as if they are not wearing a mask at all!!
Last edited by ainitfunny; 10-24-2017 at 12:58 AM.
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