bubonic plague
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bubonic plague is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 09, 2021 and December 15, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “aren’t they subject to the same diseases - malaria, Lyme, bubonic plague?”; “scientists suspect smallpox and the bubonic plague are trapped in Siberian ice”. It most often appears alongside 1918 flu, 1918 Spanish flu, Adamo.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 09, 2021
- Last seen: December 15, 2021
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- 1918 flu (1 shared issues)
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- 1918 Spanish flu (1 shared issues)
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- Adamo (1 shared issues)
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- Alaska (1 shared issues)
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- animal welfare advocates (1 shared issues)
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- Arkansas (1 shared issues)
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- BBC (1 shared issues)
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- Black Death (1 shared issues)
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- Brian Tomasik (1 shared issues)
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- Christian (1 shared issues)
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- Climate Plagues (1 shared issues)
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- Egyptian mummy (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
And don't bugs have eyes, limbs, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, and passions? Don't they eat the same food as us, especially if we forget to put it in the refrigerator? Aren't they subject to the same diseases - malaria, Lyme, bubonic plague? Aren't they healed by the same means? If you prick them, do they not bleed creepy black hemolymph? If you tickle them, do they not hiss? If you poison them, do they not die? And if you wrong them - say, by throwing a stone at a hornets' nest - will they not revenge?
The Arctic also stores terrifying bugs from more recent times. In Alaska, already, researchers have discovered remnants of the 1918 flu. They actually extracted it from the cadaver of a frozen woman. that infected as many as 500 million and killed as many as 100 million — about 5 percent of the world’s population and almost six times as many as had died in the world war for which the pandemic served as a kind of gruesome capstone. As the BBC reported in May, scientists suspect smallpox and the bubonic plague are trapped in Siberian ice, too — an abridged history of devastating human sickness, left out like egg salad in the Arctic sun.
Not bubonic plague; that one is another distraction. The reason we don't get more Black Deaths isn't because yersinia pestis died off or mellowed out. It's because we have good sanitation and pest control.
The section I find interesting is the one called Climate Plagues: