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bloomPlanet
12 monkeys anyone?
LittleWindow
CommanderWilliamTRiker
god I hope so, we're due.
larryh1
Why were they hidden? Who hid them? What if there is a disease that makes you feel better?
easybrz
What?! When did these glaciers start melting?
vauhtihirmu
Found the slowpoke! (I assume you're joking)
Dowtchaboy
There's Bubba plague in Alabama right now. Will peak on Dec 12th.
corgimas
This is the premise of Fortitude. Good show!
Hikaru321
This didn’t age well
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
There was a reindeer herd in Siberia that died from anthrax and buried in permafrost decades ago. It thawed out recently and surprise: death
fromagewit
It's a problem for the entire polar region, it happened in Norway as well
BarrackHusseinIslamabama
Bubonic plague is a actually a seasonal disease in madagascar, it never went away, we just stopped hearing about it.
Earlkay
About 9 countries still have semi regular cases of it, including the united states
Obadiah333
And that’s how global warming killed the dinosaurs. Ahahhahhaahhhaah!
MrBaldrick
They already brought alien bacteria scrapped form the hull of the space station back to earth, what else do we need...
adam1111
What's that smell? Anyone? Oh, it's scaremongering.
Prionalurus
Hey, that's The Thing plot.
Pokegeologist
So about that antivax movement...how's that going?
bedbot
population is going to decrease according to plan, initiate stage 2
MemeElder
Amish are almost wiped out here!
Pegussu
This was an X-Files episode.
lifeisgu
I watched that episode like 15 minutes ago.
cyberpunxie
*X-Files theme starts playing*
yourpalBuddyChrist
Expect Greenland and Madagascar to close borders immediately
dogenuggets
Damn that Greenland, you had to start there to have any chance of infecting them.
UrsaUrsa
Low population + large area means it won't spread quickly, but I've always managed by going airborn + avian :D
Ghost7167
Bubonic plague never went away. We just have vaccines. People still get it every year. I heard it was dangerous as a bad flu.
otakon17
The Thing!
fitch79
Reminds me of the movie Thaw with Val Kilmer, prehistoric parasites found in melting polar ice caps.
fitch79
The Thaw: http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt1235448/
manulofdoom
I misread that as "prehistoric pirates". I think this would make a better movie.
ladyanderpants
I enjoyed the shit outta that film
ThatsMySecretCapImAlwaysHorny
Have Greenpeace been watching old X-Files episodes thinking they are documentaries?
MrFunreal
Greenpeace. Am i supposed to take this seriously?
YourBossAndLandlordLikePolitics
No, you're fated to be an asshole. Right on course. I obviously dont mean it, but all of my past political conversations are rotting my soul
YourBossAndLandlordLikePolitics
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up
fromagewit
Yes and no, if you don't live near glaciers or permafrost the pathogens won't affect you.
Columcille
No. Probably FUD.
devnull791101
greenpeace, a wealth a factual environmental knowledge
MemeElder
Are sarc tags not a thing anymore? +1 for /s
thewiggins
*WARNING* dangerous levels of sarcasm detected!
YourBossAndLandlordLikePolitics
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170504-there-are-diseases-hidden-in-ice-and-they-are-waking-up
devnull791101
an entirely pointless article
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Diseases arent hidden in the ice though. Pathogens. News outlets just spit out scary science stories without actually understanding any of1
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm
2 the science.
wqpsu
There's like a couple dozen cases of bubonic plague in Arizona every year.
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Greatwood
Its the mice
evilcarp
but the rats are so cute.
RandomAbscessMemories
We had a pretty bad run of it in NM recently too.
plentyofrabbits
Lots of it in prairie dogs in CO.
ApsychicRat
ya these days it only got a 10ish% mortality rate. its bad but not terrible like the old 80% mortality rate was
Fuzzysteve
Yay, antibiotics
arbsbuhpuh
I'll bet it's not a fun experience though. Getting the flu sucks, getting the plague...? Gotta be terrible.
vauhtihirmu
Not if you remember to praise grandfather Nurgle!
zamielvanweber
It's actual indigenous to a large areaof the UY. https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
zamielvanweber
large area of the US*. My finger on my right hand did an epic slip sorry.
Wankathon
Bubonic plague is still around, turns out it's not a big deal if you wash and don't live among rats
PipBoy2000A
So you're saying I'm screwed?
sallystrutwellMD
Bubonic league, or "buby" as I like to call him, is still alive and well and never left us...
Nuttsy
Interestingly enough, "Bubi," is a nickname in German. From what I've gathered, seems roughly equivalent to "Laddie."
TheBestRussian
Endemic in Madagascar!
amstrad
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
I appreciate that you have a nickname for a plague
sallystrutwellMD
Thnx xoxo
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
I don't know that we're up to kissing and hugging, but maybe
elinveronicap
Could I trouble you for a nickname for some other diseases? Yellow fever, ebola, tuberculosis?
fromagewit
Banana fever for yellow fever?
sallystrutwellMD
Yeebers, the la, and tubs respectively
elinveronicap
I like you. May your bacteria never be antibiotic resistant.
storebrandproductmascot
Looking for a sweet plague doctor mask to wear to bubonic league next week, hit me up.
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsTheBabyAteMyDingo
Amazon has 'em
NinjaCongo
Or a plaque doctor. A dentist.
Albatross267
Ol’ Musky could prob figure a work around in the buby scenario.
NekoMiko06
It’s a cross species disease. Eradication is impractical and efforts are better suited towards ones like Malaria, which kill far more.
SexDrugsBirdsandRocknRoll
Literally no one calls it that.
PrincessWasabi
spiffynidd
A round of antibiotics and most of the time you are good to go. It's not a huge deal in the US anymore
sallystrutwellMD
Many heavy rounds of antibiotics but yes
spiffynidd
But it's not the death sentence it was in the middle ages.
sallystrutwellMD
Plague**
goosenman
I remember seeing a documentary about a group of guys in the Antarctica who found something in the ice.
ToucanSonofSam
a group of Bards from Richmond VA even put the epic tale to music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOTP-HtRmlI
lens4life
The avatar.
oscarmatic
I saw that, too!
manulofdoom
Ruins of a city of starfish-like aliens?
vorodar
You're thinking the ocean - that's from a different documentary.
manulofdoom
No, this as a reference to The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.
Lilly64
There was the group who found barrel shaped aliens in Antarctic mountain ranges though
CatsIsTheAnswer
How was that thing called?
WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyWeightedCompanionCubeFromValinor
Your mom.
CatsIsTheAnswer
You're wrong, that was a completely different film about a group of guys
GideonGrey
An Object
ForgotMyOtherAcct
His name was aang
eetsumkaus
The Stuff
SwaghettiYologneseWithMemeballs
They didn't find that shit in the Antarctica tho
RADfuckinCROKS
The Stuff as actually a pretty good movie.
Tinkrr
What doesn't kill us as a species makes us stronger :3
vauhtihirmu
Not necessarily.
undead4life
Kinda sorta...
pronoun
*stranger
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
Not really, tho. Like, at all.
BatmansUnderPantsAreSoSoft
We survived Miley Cyrus
ninjacat42509
Diabetes
doctorbees
Definitely kills people.
aclarko
But does it make us stronger? Genuine question; noticed you are a doctor.
doctorbees
Only if you plan on enlisting in the skeleton war. And yes, I am.
ec437
And what kills us kills us
Justaguy85
To the victors be the survivors.
Phobotech
The same can be said for diseases, as they evolve to be increasingly resiliant to our immune system and pharmaceutical innovations.
anakhasilver
Unfortunately, then the diseases get stronger, too.
manulofdoom
With today's medicine, it should be easy to make a vaccine for that. Which means, it'll kill off the antivaxxers. So yeah, you're right.
ihateimgurffs
Not really. It just makes us resistant to that one thing. A gazillion other things can still fuck us over, so we are not stronger.
TheRockDude
...what do you think "getting stronger" is? by your definition, our immune systems are never "getting stronger" as we develop immunities
ElationProximate2
Wow
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm
The fact that people upvote that comment is scary lol
ihateimgurffs
Example: people with sickle cell anemia are more resistant to malaria, but in areas without malaria it is an outright defect.
PhailRaptor
Anti-vaxxers. Checkmate.
manulofdoom
They'll go extinct.
Scrollbox
bubonic plague is a bitch! mnemonic plague, now theres a plague with potential!
Gyinagal
The world will never forget it
ThatsMySecretCapImAlwaysHorny
I don't remember mnemonic plague.
KismetCrew
Please, literally archaic gross unfroze epidemics. <
PileOfWalthers
I'll try to remember that.
SonderingStrike
Harmonic plague, get two and they start syncing up
ArdentSlacker
Spanish flu.
TechnicallyRight
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis
TechnicallyRight
The three types of plague are the result of the route of infection: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague.
OMGitsBISMUTH
are we not going to talk about the memeonic plague spreading exponentially through casual meme sharing on imgur *right now*???
YesImThatMrTrebus
A plague with potential was my thrash metal band name.
LordGeneralHammerSmash
How do you pronounce mnemonic. Mmmnemmonick?
SilverNicktail
First M is basically silent, makes it much easier.
LordGeneralHammerSmash
Oh that is way eaiser. Thank you
ArthurPhillipDent
I've got a mnemonic for the word "mnemonics". Many Naughty Elephants Make Our Nice Inuit Cardboard Something.
duckshooter
Then you surely havent heard about the Belieberonic plague. It even worse.
ItchyFlamingo
Pubonic plague is kinda itchy
TeamToasterNeverForget
erm... they are both easily taken care of with penicilline
ScampAnim
Is that so? Crikey what a bitch.
YouLilShit
That's not true. Pneumonic plague has a 50% mortality rate if treated, and bubonic plague still has a 20% mortality rate.
siler7
Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's penicilline.
doctorbees
Until antibiotic resistance sets in, that is.
DustinDustyDust
But what about that thing I heard about diseases resistance to penicillin, is that a real thing?
raptorheyzues
Oh fuck yeah. More and more bacteria are be coming resistant to all but the most extreme antibiotics. Even then, it's hit or miss sometimes.
Ansatsunin
Worse. There are already several strains that our most powerful "last line" antibiotics won't kill, and now they've found strains that 1/?
raptorheyzues
Like I said, hit or miss. They'll work or they won't.
Ansatsunin
can pass on resistances between different bacteria strains. 2/2
ComoSeIguana
Mnemonic you say?
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NinjaCongo
Johnny Bubonic
ImgurisluvImgurislife
Yass! Love that movie!
FuckingTurtleBear
*in the background... Macarena*
GravityPools
Have you watched (or read) Pontypool (Changes Everything)? I think you'd be interested.
NeatoBuilds
Squirrels carry the plague all day and we're fine
Macewindow54
Nice username.
Ryebread91
So do cats.
juffowup00
Well who carries it at night then?! Doe's it just wander around unattended?
NeatoBuilds
No clue, I've never seen a squirrel at night
SilentSpace8
Hilarious
WhiterunWarriorProject
But i eat squirrel...
OfallthestupididioticWTF
native american blood in me that survived the smallpox warfare means i'm more likely to survive, genetic diversity breeds strong offspring
tiramigiu
Your European blood is what would save you, we had far more exposure to various pox due to urbanisation.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
It worked both ways though. Syphilis hit us much harder than Native Americans. The first outbreak in Europe killed 5 million people.
tiramigiu
Mmmm deliciouslyhpilis
BarrackHusseinIslamabama
Don't think so, they're different diseases caused by different organisms, affecting different target structures. Immunity is highly specific
BarrackHusseinIslamabama
However some Euros are more resistant against bubonic plague due to a SNP mutation that also coincidentally makes them resistant to HIV
SoapyMammaryMasturbation
Not really, tho.
PaulyParker
doctorbees
Not necessarily. There's different strains of smallpox, one isn't as deadly as the other.
Ifyourenotfirstyourelast
Dude my Native American heritage doesn’t have anything to do with my shit immune system. I get sick from weak breezes.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
My immune system is so strong that it gets bored on occasion and eats my intestines. I have to take it down a notch with immunosuppressants.
Bombpier
Have you seen the old george carlin bit in that? If not you should go watch it
Nuclearss1
So, Crohns' disease? Sorry :-(
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Was no smallpox warfare. Just sayin.
CamelSpotter
GrimdogX
Never gone near any history books huh?
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Please provide a history book the states and proves definitive use of smallpox warfare.
IZ42
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Alright. Willing to accept that there instances where it was at least tried to some extent. Thanks yo
stabbedintheface
It took all day...but that's that the dumbest thing I've read all day. And I follow Trump on Twitter...
NotaCPA
BEST RESPONSE EVER. YOU WIN THE INTERNET
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Im damn surprised you can read! Congrats!
TheLastBaboon
Dude...
MartianWeasel
Here dude, take this blanket...
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Here dude, take this opportunity to show me where this happened.
RockPapersBeer
“I will try to inoculate the bastards with some blankets [...]" http://www.historynet.com/smallpox-in-the-blankets.htm
RockPapersBeer
While not all smallpox was deliberately pushed onto the natives, this definitely disproves your "no germ warfare"-statement. Bitch.
IZ42
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt : http">t_Pitt">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics
IZ42
You're right, it was more full scale genocide. Cunt.
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
If it was full scale genocide, why do probably half the people you know say they are 1/32 native american
IZ42
The holocaust was full scale genocide, look at all those Jews still around. Or is the holocaust bot an example of genocide?
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Probably the wrong way for me to have phrased that. But we had indian allies and enemies. There was no attempt to kill all Indians.
easybrz
Bring on the downvotes, he is right contrary to popular belief people didn't know disease could be transferred to objects in that time frame
RockPapersBeer
At the time people very much knew that smallpox could be transferred by skinflakes in blankets. I mean dude, they already had a vaccine.
IZ42
False. I provided multiple resources that states biological warfare via smallpox against indians was used further up this comment chain
IZ42
Here, buddy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt
SinStar87
You are an idiot. https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
There are cases where people tried smallpox. Ill concede that. I think this particular article is weak tho. But ill admit you were right
SinStar87
As I said before. Personal letters with a plan to infect them, response that it should be done, and corroboration that they were infected.>
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Did u read the paper or jump right to the conclusion at the end. Serious question.
SinStar87
Did you delete your replies or is imur screwing up?
SinStar87
I read it, the important part is when they have a back and forth about doing whatever to kill them and inoculate them with pox blankets
SinStar87
It says that "I'm going to give them smallpox" "good, kill them how you can" "yep indians have SP, they are ravaged" But because he 1/
2and900
You're right, it was a largepox warfare.
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
Bruh really
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Bruh, im totally open for discussion on this. Totally willin to change my mind if im presented with something that proves it happened.
MemeElder
I saw it on South Park so it must be true
SinStar87
It's not hard to educate yourself. A minute search on google game me a detailed essay with print-copies of letters showing you are wrong.
IZ42
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt
TheRespectedContender
And I suppose the holocaust was a lie too?
MemeElder
Well I would ask for proof of that but holohoax denial is a crime (europe), soon to be in US also. Truth doesn't need laws to protect it.
SinStar87
Tell that to the evolution deniers removing it's being taught in schools here.
MemeElder
Ugh where? Peak insanity..guessing if US Utah?
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Asking for proof of smallpox blankets. Lets hear or shut up.
IZ42
Here you are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt gotta respond now, yeah?
MemeElder
All they will do is attack you, since their argument is weak. Keep up the fight.
IAmTheLegendOfZelda
Theres documented cases of people crating fake smallpox blankets sources. I also responded to him cubt
TheRespectedContender
“Keep up the fight” like he’s some sort of truth warrior lmao
IZ42
I provided sources; he has yet to respond ;)