Bubonic plague is treatable and not very deadly anymore. Pneumonic plague is also treatable but still deadly and if untreated has close to a 100% fatality rate. Septicemic plague is also very deadly, even with early treatment with antibiotics it has a mortality rate of 4-15%
Treatment seems to be antibiotics within 24 hours of symptoms, or after exposure preemptively. Patients still require oxygen and hospitalization in almost all cases after symptom onset. Even with early treatment, this shit still has a 17% mortality rate—nearly 100% death rate if left untreated. R-naught is anywhere between 1.3-3.5. Which, with a disease that requires hospitalization, intravenous antibiotics, and oxygen at symptom onset still with a 17% mortality rate, is a lot of infection potential…
Potentially. The good thing we have going for us is that it’s mostly only communicable after symptom onset. That means it’s easier to stop the spread than something with infection potential prior to symptom onset where the host vector isn’t even aware they’re sick yet.
I just hope it isn't a scarier bioweapon version of the pneumonic plague. I've read about this specifically being something that was researched during the cold war. Hopefully that doesn't exist in this lab.
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u/cannotfoolowls 6h ago
Bubonic plague is treatable and not very deadly anymore. Pneumonic plague is also treatable but still deadly and if untreated has close to a 100% fatality rate. Septicemic plague is also very deadly, even with early treatment with antibiotics it has a mortality rate of 4-15%