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13igTyme@piefed.social 5 weeks agoIt’s rare because we have higher hygiene standards. Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.
Basically washing our hands eliminated the black plague.
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.
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.”
Your comment was partially incorrect. I corrected you. Washing hands had little to nothing to do with it. You didn’t mention anything about rats or the fleas they carried, which were the primary carrier of the bubonic plague
I implore you to understand what an over simplification statement mean in regard to a multi step process that took centuries of understanding what to do and not to do. What conditions are considered acceptable now vs 700 years ago and so on.
Hygiene literally means practices that maintain health. Saying “we are healthy by maintaining better hygiene” literally means “We maintained our health by engaging in practices that maintained our health.”
Got a rodent problem? Just wash your hands!
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.)
In all seriousness I’ve found to treat cats for fleas the best method is a flea comb and a tub of bubbly soapy water.
The cat doesn’t go in the water, instead you sit the cat on your lap, comb it’s fur gently with the flea comb, and when you spot a flea on the comb, you dunk it in the bubbly soapy water.
…the bubbles catch the flea, and make it a lot harder for them to escape. Turns a traumatic soggy moggy time, into a nice combing kill session.
But I take it you just have the pup, so this tips might be for a passer by.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 5 weeks 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.