Black death returns with a twist

Both the bubonic and the pneumonic are on the pandemic door step

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...eumonic-plague-2018-dead-africa-new-cases-who

..Add this to the experts warning that a pandemic flu (no not the seasonal flu we are a custom to) this one is a killer (spanish flu) is coming or could already be here. This strain could be worse than the H1N1 spanish flu and the H1N1/09 2009 pandemic strain.

No, don't go locking down the house in a paranoid frenzy, just be aware.

you do know how to cheer us up Mav

this is something I'm scared of...

All I can say is that the article appears to be the opinion of one doctor and I can't seem to verify the information within the WHO website. I admit I did not spend that much time on it. One thing that stood out to me was the comment that antibiotics did not work well because it had not been exposed to antibiotics much in the past.

“Because this disease is extremely rare, it doesn’t get exposed to antibiotics that often,” he said.

“That means it’s more resistant to antibiotics and the risk of death is higher.”

To me that did not make much sense as bacteria that are exposed to antibiotics more often tend to develop resistance to them. The only possibility that I could think of is that they have not exposed the bacteria to antibiotics in the laboratory to develop properly targeted antibiotics. So, anyway, that was just something that caught my attention.
AND any disease has the potential to spread from country to county, that is nothing new. I did not see any references cited and I am always looking for that sort of documentation.

It's not that antibiotic is over prescribed, people that prescribed for a 7 or 10 day treatment have stopped taking them on the 3rd or 4th day because they were feeling better thus causing the bacteria to bond with it thus creating a resistant, it's not the doctors fault but the patient themselves.

jontte said:

you do know how to cheer us up Mav

this is something I'm scared of...

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Ya, it's nothing sneeze at, with the world a melting pot it's only going to get worse, nature can only take so much before she attempts to set things right.

Antibiotic resistance comes from other sources. Bacteria can share genetic information (they swap plasmids, which are sections of genetic material), and bacteria can inherit resistance from other species this way.

Also, antibiotics are overused in agriculture, so antibiotic resistant bugs can come from factory farms that raise chickens, pigs, and cattle.

And then there is cross-resistance, where resistance to one antibiotic also confers resistance to other antibiotics that the bug hasn't been exposed to.

And so on.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-18/bill-gates-threat-devastating-global-pandemic-very-real

Not a gates fan, but clearly it's on the minds of people.