WHO saying it's low risk and the plague is easily treatable by antibiotics, right?
There are different types of plague. God do I hate the media.
Types
The type of plague you have depends on where in your body you’re infected with Y. pestis:
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Bubonic plague: This is a pestis infection that travels to your lymph nodes from a flea bite. It makes large, swollen lymph nodes called buboes. Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague. It’s also the most survivable.
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Septicemic plague: This refers to a pestis infection in your blood. You can get it from a flea bite or have it spread to your blood from other parts of your body. It destroys your tissues, leading to organ failure.
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Pneumonic plague: This is a pestis infection in your lungs. You can get it from other people, or it can spread to your lungs from other parts of your body. It causes severe pneumonia and is the most dangerous type of plague. It’s less common than septicemic and bubonic infections.
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Pharyngeal plague: This plague is a pestis infection in your throat. It’s a rare type of infection you get from eating infected meat.
From the article
Angela Rassmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, told CNN that while pneumonic plague is deadly, it is not very transmissible and one would have to be exposed to a high bacterial load to become sick.
"it is not very transmissible" but was it militarized?