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cannonpr • yesterday at 6:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The particular bacterium if infecting the skin is fairly treatable and mild with modern medicine, pneumonic plague is 100% lethal if not treated within 24h and utterly asymptomatic during the first 24h, it’s also airborne. Same bacterium but very different diseases..


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rootusrootus • yesterday at 8:04 PM

> pneumonic plague is 100% lethal if not treated within 24h and utterly asymptomatic during the first 24h

But isn't the 24 hour critical window of treatment measured from the onset of symptoms?

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