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Really shouldn’t have toured the Иркутск противочумного института last week before coming back to the states smh. Hope I’m not a plague carrier and this cough is just covid
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Anonymous 15h

It’s aight plague doesn’t typically spread from person-to-person

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

who taught you how it actually spreads?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

I googled it and yeah the pneumonic form they got does spread person-to-person, but the bubonic form we all think of when we hear “plague” generally doesn’t transmit easily from human-human, and the reason it was such a problem in the middle ages was because they had no damn hygiene and mfs had fleas

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

yes, communal fleas from community oriented humans I think it's still half valid to say by its spread by human(+rodents) close proximity

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

Yeah but that’s still not direct human to human transmission, the vast majority of that spread requires animal vectors that people today have way less contact with

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

is the Cyrillic text saying something about person to person contact? idk why you brought it up to begin with

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

No it means “Irkutsk anti plague institute”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

Also pneumonic plague does spread person to person and does not require fleas to transmit it

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