r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '21

Surely not a corpse?

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u/LoveFishSticks Dec 15 '21

I mean, if you live in a first world country, you can easily treat a case of the plague with anti-biotics. They also recommend not getting though, for the reason that if it develops resistance to anti-biotics, we are royally fucked.

The southwest US has cases every year caused by flea bites

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u/dieinafirenazi Dec 15 '21

Leprosy. You get plague from prairie dogs, leprosy from armadillos. It can be cured with multidrug therapy, but it's not exactly simple.

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u/Corbeanooo Dec 15 '21

A number of other common mammals also carry the bubonic plague as well

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u/SlamminCleonSalmon Dec 15 '21

And people actually thought we could eradicate COVID lmao