Reply to post: Re: No face masks?

Boffins ID bug behind London's Great Plague of 1665

Eltonga

Re: No face masks?

Even if it were 40 years, we are talking of one magnitude order above that.

Not to say that they must totally ignore security measures but in this specific case, that they had to dig the bacteria ADN (which is not the same as saying the whole bacteria) within the victims' teeth, and being the fact that Y.pestis vector are the rat's fleas, the ones digging probability of catching anything besides retching due to the grisly show are extremely close to zero.

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