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I decided against showing the increasingly unhinged takes that hit my Threads and Twitter feeds but, suffice to say, it is both easy, normal, and rewarded to have scary takes on the internet...let's try something different...looking at what we actually know (rather than what my brain is making up) and determining whether any of that is scary.
Edited by Digital Gator: https://bsky.app/profile/digigator.bsky.social
SOURCESSS
How y pestis works:
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/signs-symptoms/index.html
Bubonic plague:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague
Plague in the US:
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/causes/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html
Madagascar’s 2017 outbreak:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/27-november-2017-plague-madagascar-en
Pneumonic plague is bad:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
Person-to-person transmission - close, sustained contact and we've not seen asymptomatic transmission: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
Sharing rooms without transmission: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/3/05-1051_article
Plague was controlled before antibiotics by improved hygeine: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2019/04/third-plague-pandemic-europe/
Plague outbreak control: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/27-november-2017-plague-madagascar-en
The Black Death killed an ~ 30–50% of Europe: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8488627/
Evidence of lethal plague outbreaks among hunter-gatherers dates back ~ 5,500 years: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42310115/
The Irkutsk governor report: https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/1005/1594093-russia-plague/
No reported secondary cases: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-closely-monitoring-situation-following-case-pneumonia-unknown-origin-russia
Previous plague responses in Russia: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/russian-boy-contracts-bubonic-plague/48xlpcqv3
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-russia-urges-marmot-plague.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/bubonic-plague-outbreak-feared-central-asia
Edited by Digital Gator: https://bsky.app/profile/digigator.bsky.social
SOURCESSS
How y pestis works:
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/signs-symptoms/index.html
Bubonic plague:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague
Plague in the US:
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/causes/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html
Madagascar’s 2017 outbreak:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/27-november-2017-plague-madagascar-en
Pneumonic plague is bad:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
Person-to-person transmission - close, sustained contact and we've not seen asymptomatic transmission: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
Sharing rooms without transmission: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/3/05-1051_article
Plague was controlled before antibiotics by improved hygeine: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2019/04/third-plague-pandemic-europe/
Plague outbreak control: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/rr/rr7003a1.htm
https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/27-november-2017-plague-madagascar-en
The Black Death killed an ~ 30–50% of Europe: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8488627/
Evidence of lethal plague outbreaks among hunter-gatherers dates back ~ 5,500 years: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42310115/
The Irkutsk governor report: https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/1005/1594093-russia-plague/
No reported secondary cases: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-closely-monitoring-situation-following-case-pneumonia-unknown-origin-russia
Previous plague responses in Russia: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/russian-boy-contracts-bubonic-plague/48xlpcqv3
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-russia-urges-marmot-plague.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/27/bubonic-plague-outbreak-feared-central-asia
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