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Plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas.
People infected with plague usually develop "flu-like" symptoms after an incubation period of 1-7 days.
There are 2 main clinical forms of plague infection: bubonic and pneumonic. Bubonic is the most common form and is characterized by painful swollen lymph nodes or 'buboes'.
Plague can be a very severe disease in people, with a case-fatality ratio of 30%-60% for the bubonic type and is always fatal for the pneumonic kind, if left untreated.
2010 – 2015 there were 3248 cases reported worldwide, including 584 deaths.
Currently, the 3 most endemic countries are Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Peru.
Thewolf1083
Also the reason for the phrase "God Bless You" people thought that the reason you were sneezing was a plague like symptom
thatsmyidentifier
I had a bunch of flu-like symptoms while camping. Dr said it was either strep or bubonic. Only was sure not plague cause no ring-like rashes
voguemouse
+1 I dressed up as the beaky doctor for halloween!
UselessCargo
Official number: 68,595; Likely number: 100,000 - a cool, 100k, nice and even, not even 1 more than 100,000 was likely, though.
guannabislord
RoxanneLaWin
Too soon - Europe
UsernameOnlyAvailableToImgurPremiumUsers
I want a wooden stick to keep people away
IncrediRis
these are fun facts!
Snowcean
This doesn't say how it spread since there is no cycle here. How does it infect the rat in the first place?
ObliqueRay
Thousands of theists pray... they all die. Secular science develops treatment... everyone lives. It's almost as if religion is all bullshit.
bifz
Did you ever hear the tragedy of the Great Plague?
buttershudders
Oh this ages well. Sincerely, 2020.
donegoofd
This was made for the major Pepys Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. A pal from uni did all these images!
waspy17
I really wanted to go to that, never found the time.
Shoutrr
Is Pepys ok ?
thecannoli
For real tho, he wrote one of the best accounts of 1st person pov regarding the plague. But yeah, super ded.
callcenterslut
he ded
iCantImager
Maybe if this happened again I could get to work on time.
thismakesnosense
Anyone who finds disease wiping out almost an entire population, and how our world would start the reconstruction should read Station Eleven
ControlZ
Four cases in New Mexico in 2016. Go Lobos!
amagiciannamedgob
Most plague cases today come from NM. lol?
Quirky74747
I moved to New Mexico 16 years ago...I was stunned to learn that the plague still existed in the U.S.
ControlZ
I moved here just before the big Hantavirus outbreak in '98 & '99. Compared to that, plague is kinda quaint.
ForensicsHound
Man I would love a high res large poster of this for my classroom.
cjmac32
Google reverse image search
Silwerbullet
Well if you click on the image you will get the size I found it in. Maybe have it blown up at a printer.
redrought10
I could only find it in 1200 * 6000 http://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/great-plague-numbers
AJMansfield
By high res, we mean something on the order of 10000 pixels on a side or more, otherwise it will look blurry when you upscale.
Danmanbadman
Yea but you lose quality the bigger you blow it up
probshouldntsayitbut
Happens to people too
rlong
"Enhance"
SilentInSUB
It's like they've never watched a cop show or something
Hellpadre
Nice inphografic!
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
Madagascar should have closed its port sooner.
TheBestRussian
I finally got over that goddamn game and you brought back the awful, awful memories *succumbs to virus*
greenbluegreen2
I understand this reference
callcenterslut
I usually started in Madagascar.
TheFragnatic
Yea me 2, but then greenland was always the problem -.-
dbox
Jacbatstatefarm
I was about to say.
kamakaziK
Isn't this info about 300 years off?? Pretty sure the plague ran its craziness in the 1350's.
d0o0o0d
'The Plague' usually refers to the disease. There were several outbreaks, all over Europe.
Silwerbullet
It started around then and seem to keep on breaking out over and over.
Silwerbullet
This was the great "plague of London" that ender its destruction in England it looks like.
heysupbrent
Where can you get said stick??? Asking for a friend
cogs
The Black Death was early- to mid- 14th Century and killed an estimated 75-200 million people. This was comparatively a minor outbreak.
Silwerbullet
This look to have been "The great London" outbreak that ended its reign in England. It only started in mid 14th and then constantly re-occur
HandoB4Javert
That's why they believe in a healthcare system for all across most of Europe.
HandoB4Javert
Centuries later the Spanish Flu wiped out many more in the now developed countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
CarlosSatana
Yea but free healthcare
Silwerbullet
Interesting thanks.
CGriffo124
Fun fact: The UK started NHS in 1946; which means, directly after WW2, we still managed to find the money for it. So the USA has no excuse
TheFragnatic
They are funding it. Their problem is how corrupt the system is. How everything healthcare related costs much more there than anywhere else.
CGriffo124
Problem is both the corruptness of the system, and the system itself. Healthcare isn't something you can shop around for when it's needed
GooberSnotpants
what about the gerbils?!
JustSomeHoneybadger
What about the gerbils? I doubt an African rodent had anything to do with the 1665 plague in London.
GooberSnotpants
reported http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31588671 but see htt">">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31588671 but see http://www.theskepticsguide.org/no-gerbils-didnt-cause-the-black-death
AlotOfReading
The "gerbils" are the Asian kind, along with marmots. They're well-established as reservoirs of plague and probably helped the black death.
armeggedonCounselor
Yeah, the black plague sounds nasty. Nastier by far are the plagues that hit the Native Americans after first contact. 90+% mortality rate.
waspy17
Smallpox mostly.
armeggedonCounselor
Among other things. Native Americans were pretty uniquely vulnerable to European plagues, for multiple complex reasons.
AlotOfReading
Population mortality rate over a period of centuries was 90%... Any particular cause, including outbreaks, was much lower (generally <30%).
armeggedonCounselor
It was worse than that. Indians in North America often died out so quickly that there was no one left well enough to bury the dead.
armeggedonCounselor
In 1617, a pandemic swept through New England. Within three years, it wiped out 90 to 96% of the Americans in the region.
armeggedonCounselor
Quoting Robert Cushman, an English eyewitness of the plague, "Only the twentieth person is scarce left alive."
armeggedonCounselor
Don't downplay the plague. It was important to the development of the colonies. The Pilgrims used the plague as evidence that God was on
FerrousBuehler
People in the USA blame immigrants when in fact it comes mostly from Prarie dogs and the fucking idiots who take them out of the wild as pet
Danmanbadman
Blame the immigrants for what? I've never heard someone say "that damn immigrant gave me bubonic plague!"
FerrousBuehler
Well I'm happy you've never been exposed to that level of ignorance. Read it, heard people in person and on tv say it
ThenTheWingedHussarsArrived
Pat Robertson everyone.
FerrousBuehler
Never heard him say it. It's usually toothless nimrods in rural western states where it's most prevalent.
FerrousBuehler
That and people who'd rather us shoot the immigrants as they cross the border
ThenTheWingedHussarsArrived
Pat Robertson believes 9/11, H1N1, Ebola, and just about everything bad is "God punishing the wicked"
LMNOParis
Holy shit, didn't know this stuff was still around
fudgepuppyorangecake
We can treat it with antibiotics now :)
Walatalalaw
too virulent and deadly compared to regular bubonic plague. 2/2
Pseudosim
Just wait till the rest of Siberia's permafrost melts.
TheBestRussian
Then the dinosaurs shall rise again!
bluesun68
California campers get it
Walatalalaw
There have actually been many plagues, but none like the black death. Some people suspect we're mistaking the pathogen, because it seems 1/2
AlotOfReading
Those people are entirely, 100% wrong (see Bos et al. (2011)). We also have 2 other epidemics to compare against the Black Death.
Walatalalaw
Really? I had read the symptoms were described differently to other plagues and bubonic plague today. I'll read up on that! thanks!
FerrousBuehler
People in the usa get it quite a bit. It's almost always on the news
Ihavewaytoomanyfavoritestosort
Where the hell do you live that people are so filthy and unvaccinated?
IHateApostrophes
I've never heard of a vaccine for yersinia.
FerrousBuehler
Always is a bad word to use. 16 people got it in 2015, 4 in 16. It's not about people being filthy and absolutely nothing to do with vaccine
FerrousBuehler
And it is a common disease for many animals with fleas that come into close contact with humans in western states
waspy17
Pepys, interesting man, they think he may have had a natural immunity to the plague. Spoke fluent French 1/2
waspy17
but as a tailor's son in London, no one knows where he learnt that. On the downside he was a total sex pest.
donegoofd
Oh he totally was - Doesn't he write about having emissions upon spying some of Charles II mistresses' underpants on a washing line? Bleugh
waspy17
Total perv, but the diary (abridged version) is an interesting look at 17th century England. I wish I could have seen that exhibition.