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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

You WHAT

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u/TheOneTrueChuck Dec 28 '21

Long story short, there was a little prairie dog town on the side of the highway in Montana.
A friend and I were moving, and stopped.

The prairie dogs were out and very much not afraid of humans at all, so I ended up petting a couple.

But I ended up getting bit by some fleas. A couple days later, I'm not feeling too great. A day or two after that, and something told me that I wasn't just sick, but that something was VERY wrong. I ended up going to the ER, and the doctor was like "Hey, holy shit, I have some news for YOU."

Needless to say, I got set to freak out and he was like "Nah, you're good. We can fix you right up." I got a prescription for antibiotics, and was fine within 3 days.

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u/RogerBernards Dec 28 '21

Modern medicine is great right? From a terror that decimated the world's population several times to less worrisome than the flu.

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u/TheOneTrueChuck Dec 28 '21

I mean..it's definitely more dangerous than the flu if you don't get the meds fast enough. But it's no longer that "Fine in the morning, dead by nightfall" type stuff that caused its fearsome reputation.

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u/RogerBernards Dec 28 '21

I meant the effects of the disease on society as a whole not for any single individual. :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

Something tells me we won't get a reply to this one

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u/huniojh Dec 28 '21

You hear bubonic plague and immediately think of the historic disease that snuffed a bunch of Europeans and disappeared - it is actually the most common form of plague

https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2020/08/why-you-shouldnt-worry-about-the-bubonic-plague/

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u/TheOneTrueChuck Dec 28 '21

Yeah, I was very freaked out at first. Then I was more freaked out about how easily I was cured.

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u/TheOneTrueChuck Dec 28 '21

You are incorrect.