If THIS starts spreading, can we all agree to shut all the flights down in/out of China?

[Pocketfull86]

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/china-suspected-case-of-bubonic-plague-reported-in-inner-mongolia-12022119

The Black Death...

I’m not usually one for tinhat theories but it is starting to feel like 2020 is a B-list budget horror film.

If the Bubonic Plague gets up and running again the economy will be the least of our worries.

Coronavirus will seem like a dream in comparison.

Comes from eating marmite

I think you meant Marmots grin]

One of my friends was travelling around the world a few years ago and got stuck somewhere because of the plague and it was too cold for the donkeys to get down the mountain. 90% she was still in Europe at the time. Remains the strangest reply I've ever gotten to a 'how are things your way?' text..

Porcupineinwaiting Mormons possibly works too !!

What is it with all these scaremongering..."oh I am just innocently drawing your attention to another potential disaster to make your already frazzled minds spin a bit more "posts? For christs sake just get on with living..you get one shot at life and you are a long time dead, What will be will be.Drives me insane these posts..I mean what if you got knocked over by a bus next week? You cannot forsee things so do you and us a favour and just well...........never mind ..carrry on as you were and I will shut up and move on too!

@HesterShaw1 The one in black death is particularly special iirc

"Comes from eating marmite"
😫
That's me at high risk of bubonic plague then ?

However, I've never committed cannibalism, whether of Mormons or anyone else
So maybe I'll be OK

Is it easily diagnosed? Imagine going to A&E with it and some doctor tells you it’s just a bit of flu and you’re overreacting. Then sends you home and we guess the rest.

But it’s true that a lot of people worldwide are becoming antibiotic resistant.

Anyway, thanks for that, cheered me right up. Oh. Would social distancing work against bubonic plague?

If only humans would stop eating every creature that moves, fgs! I am blaming the meat eaters for this proliferation of zoonotic diseases.

If the people of Mongolia didnt eat meat @Mistymonday they'd starve to death, it's not like you can grow many crops at that altitude and in such dry conditions. The people who are eating marmots are doing so because they need to eat, not as some sort of exotic delicacy.

It can be treated with antibiotics. If you get the pills within 24hrs the chance of death drops to only 10%. It certainly can’t be “cured” in the sense that you’re guaranteed to survive.

I don't even have the energy left to worry about this.

@Mistymonday

If only humans would stop eating every creature that moves, fgs! I am blaming the meat eaters for this proliferation of zoonotic diseases.

Yes because in Mongolia it’s so easy to eat a Vegan diet 🙄.

@Porcupineinwaiting

Marmots

What an auto correct!. Now my phone is offering Mormons.

Only if you eat their brains. BBRAAINNZZZZ.

Actually OP,reading about the plague is really interesting. Endemic in various countries, how it's treated. Weird facts like it looks like rats were maligned and actually gerbils or even hamsters may have (shows what a cute face and good press can do). Horses seem protective. Grooms didn't get it much. Lots of cool facts. www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-people-in-ancient-times-didnt-get-the-plague

well, you could have picked several other countries - including the USA - so China was an interesting one, OP.

as for this
By the way, the film The Black Death is brilliant and has Sean Bean's best death scene.

2nd best. The best was the herd of cows, surely?

@Davodia

It can be treated with antibiotics. If you get the pills within 24hrs the chance of death drops to only 10%. It certainly can’t be “cured” in the sense that you’re guaranteed to survive.

90% survival rate is excellent odds. More than most things.

I did not know that Inner Mongolia is in China. If IM is in China that means that Outer Mongolia is just...Mongolia?

The last time I heard about cases of bubonic plague, they were in California, I think. It's easier to avoid these days, because we know it's spread by the fleas on rats.

Bubonic plague is spread by fleas. It is not transmitted from human to human. In order to catch it, you would need to be bitten by a flea. So nothing that is going to become a pandemic in the uk. In small villages in poorer countries where fleas are more prevalent, then maybe but not over here.

If IM is in China that means that Outer Mongolia is just...Mongolia?

Outer Mongolia was the name for Mongolia when Mongolia was under Chinese control, until the overthrow of the last dynasty.

But bubonic plague can spread to the lungs and become pneumonic, and therefore spread just like Covid.

Diseases are interesting!

What's with the photo of the capital city showing some camels in a desert?

By the way, the film The Black Death is brilliant and has Sean Bean's best death scene.

Let's face it, he's done a few.

^ has he ever survived a film?

@BigChocFrenzy

"Comes from eating marmite" 😫 That's me at high risk of bubonic plague then ?

However, I've never committed cannibalism, whether of Mormons or anyone else
So maybe I'll be OK

Marmite-eating Mormon Marmots?

Seems a very convoluted way of contracting it.

I think we'll be alright, somehow.

Go get some doxycycline antibiotics. Used for acne and Lyme disease. Oh and the plague.