cryingalonewithfrankenstein said: For once in my life I’ve been relatively healthy, which is a little weird and suspicious, but oh well. Also, I’ve so thoroughly internalized “don’t touch prairie dogs they have plague” it weirds me out when people DON’T know plague still exists.

I saw a horror book or movie or something not too long ago where the premise was "Archaeologist unearths Black Death and CAUSES APOCALYPSE!" and aaaaaargh

cryingalonewithfrankenstein said: my professor let me do my research paper on yellow fever and i have plunged off the deep end into researching other viral hemorrhagic fevers as well and boy am i having a fun time

Meanwhile, I'm a longtime Y. pestis fan and man, they're just not pulling their weight lately.  Time was the Bubonic Plague was the only thing that put a dent in the rate of population growth, now it has like a 12% mortality rate at best and you catch it from prairie dogs.  Prairie dogs.  That's just embarrassing.  But y'gotta love the home team, y'know?