Yersinia pestis (the bacteria that causes bubonic plague)

[Just another man]

You wanna hear something that’ll keep you up at night? There’s an antibiotic resistance strain in Madagascar ☹️

It's treatable but still 10% fatal. God help if bubonic plague every becomes more transmissible

Not even that rare, it's around as Sylvatic plague in rodents all the time. Regularly wipes out prairie dog colonies and led to the decline of the black footed ferret.

 

 

[Just another man]

the Bubonic plague still exists. It's still deadly, but it's far less threatening because:

A cure now exists.

Modern hygiene.

The animals who are the current disease vectors don't come into physical contact with humans all that often.

There are people who have a natural resistance to the disease since they're decedents of plague survivors.

it is hypothesized that people who lack a cellular receptor known as ccr5, may be immune to the plague. Lack of that receptor also confers immunity to HIV as far as we are aware.