I assume you mean well, but this is serious “confidently incorrect” energy. Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes bubonic plague, never changed to become less virulent and can still affect humans to this day. It has been killing a ton of humans for thousands of years and was still killing thousands of people at a time in localized outbreaks up until we discovered the antibiotics that cure it.
Also, it’s transmitted through the fleas on small mammals, not through the mammals themselves. Flea transmission is far and away the primary vector. Human to human transmission has always been pretty rare, since it can only be transmitted between humans through contact with bodily fluids, similar to how HIV spreads.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It actually still exists in people too, it’s just rare and treatable.
healthline.com/…/seriously-dont-worry-about-the-p…
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
Plague: Then vs now
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13igTyme@piefed.social 13 hours ago
It’s rare because we have higher hygiene standards. Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 13 hours ago
More like fleas and other biting insects are more rare, and people generally do not tolerate sleeping around non-pet rats. It’s more living conditions than hygene.
homes@piefed.world 13 hours ago
That’s not how it was spread. It was spread by fleas and other blood to blood contact if the person had to bubonic plague and, in later stages, through the air in close contact via infectious respiratory droplets if the person had the pneumonic plague.
13igTyme@piefed.social 13 hours ago
My comment was an over simplification. By having higher hygiene standards we reduced our contact with rats and other things that can carry it. It is essentially “We did A, which caused B through G, which lead to less of H.”
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Got a rodent problem? Just wash your hands!
smh@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Sure would have been nice to know this when my house got invested with fleas. No need to flea bomb, I just needed to wash my hands!
(got a pup from a household with inadequate flea control measures–they’d give him a flea bath weekly, but never treated the environment or their cats. They swore up and down he didn’t have fleas.)