Covid Vaccine Scientists Creating New Shot for Bubonic Plague
There are signs the plague bacteria has already developed resistance against antibiotics currently in use.
Bubonic plague is a severe infectious and potentially fatal disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is the most common form of plague and is primarily spread through the bite of infected fleas that typically live on rodents.
The disease, also known infamously as the Black Death, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351, causing between 75 million and 200 million deaths (which included about 50% of the total population in Europe at the time). Those horrifying numbers still grip the imagination.
Now, in an intriguing development, COVID-19 vaccine scientists have developed a new shot that would protect against Yersinia pestis infections. Researchers explain they are now concerned about a “superbug strain.”
Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge.
There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague, which has killed around 200 million people worldwide throughout history.
But the team behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus jab has now reported progress in its work on an inoculation.
Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the several vaccines in development are approved for use.
Scientists have called for the UK to add a Black Death jab to its stockpile as the risk of a superbug strain rises.
The explanation for the concern is that there are signs the plague bacteria has already developed resistance against antibiotics currently in use.
Scientists at Porton Down’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory wrote last year that antimicrobial resistance is creating superbug strains that can’t be countered by standard antibiotics.
Evolving strains which could pose a risk have already been found in Madagascar and Peru.
From 2010 to 2015, a total of 3,248 documented cases were reported globally, resulting in 584 deaths. This averages to about 650 cases annually during that period. A majority of those cases are in Madagascar and Peru, as well as a third country….the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The DRC is also home to the virulent Clade 1B monkeypox outbreak and a mystery disease that has hit children hard.
The first plague vaccine was developed in 1897 by bacteriologist Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine, who tested it on himself. This early vaccine was widely used in British India, with an estimated 26 million doses distributed between 1897 and 1925, reducing plague mortality by 50-85%.
He was hailed as the “the Jewish Jenner” (Jenner having created the smallpox vaccine), as Haffkine also developed a vaccine for cholera.
When the bubonic plague hit Bombay in October 1896 with a mortality rate double that of cholera, the Indian government asked Haffkine to assist, and he commenced work in a crude laboratory and assumed the daunting task of developing the world’s first vaccine against plague.
Amazingly, working almost entirely by himself, he succeeded in developing a vaccine that was ready for testing only three months later and, again, he first tested it on himself on January 10, 1897. Soon after he announced his successful results to the authorities, plague broke out at Bombay’s Byculla House of Correction. He conducted a controlled test there, the results of which were that the majority of deaths were among the unvaccinated.
Only China and Russia have licensed a live bubonic plague vaccine, which is based on an attenuated Y. pestis strain.
However, this type of vaccine is associated with some adverse effects and does not provide long-term immunity.
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Well super duper monkey pox didnt work
Biden has been a pox on this country that is worse than anything that ever came from monkeys.
So, die a quick death from bubonic plague or a slow, agonizing death from their vaccine… Hmmm, that’s a tough one…
The chances of anyone contracting plague in the Western world (where we have sanitation and rodent control, not to mention antibiotics), much less dying from it, are infinitesimal.
Yes, there are a handful of plague cases every year in the USA, but probably fewer than those who died bitten by a snake while simultaneously being struck by lightning.
I sincerely doubt that a disease which affects only a few hundred people a year is resistant to current antibiotics; it would simply not be exposed frequently enough to develop resistance,
Just another bullshit propaganda fear porn test.
You haven’t seen the rats in New York apparently
“We review 28 years of long-term surveillance (1970–1997) for plague activity among wild rodents from ten locations within three coniferous forest habitat types in the northern Sierra Nevada and the Southern Cascade mountains of northeastern California. We identify rodent hosts and their fleas and document long-term plague activity in each habitat type. The highest seroprevalence for Yersinia pestis occurred in the chipmunks” […]
More than once I’ve seen plague placards posted in remote regions of the Sierra-Cascade. It pops up in Yosemite. We always spray lots of deet repellent on arms, neck, ankles, legs, socks, boots etc.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure the image at the top is a frostbite sufferer, not a plague victim.
Image origin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQBxTLjYRsI#action=share
Interesting, I knew the picture was real, but I had always been taught that both pneumonic *and* septicemic could spread directly person-to-person and that septicemic was the version that killed within hours (tales of healthy doctors and priests who went into a patient/congregant and died almost as soon as they left the house). Of course, my info is four decades old, and I admit to not keeping up with the latest literature on it so take it for what it is worth. 🙂
My guess was “Goth rave aficionado.”
Let me guess….in order to perfect their ‘vaccine’ they need to do just a tad of gain of function research on it. What could possibly go wrong?
So that means it gives us the plague in the first place, right?
Biden has been a plague on this country.
No disease could be any worse than that.
The cure is a good healthy dose of Trump to make America healthy again.
The pulmonic version was the really deadly variant. That was The Black Death. Got to trim down the world’s population anyway they can. The “oldie but goodies” have been dusted off and brought across the border.
“Acral necrosis is a symptom common in bubonic plague. The striking black discoloration of skin and tissue, primarily on the extremities (“acral”), is commonly thought to have given rise to the name “Black Death,”
Ok, my studies on this were in the early ’80s (undergrad medievalist here), but at least then, what we were taught (remembered off the top of my head) was bubonic had about a 10-20% chance of survival without modern medical treatment and it took about 8 days to run its course. That was the classic variety with the nasty buboes, big swellings in the armpits and groin, basically the lymph nodes, and that version is carried by flea bite. Then you get pneumonic, as it sounds, and it is airborne. It takes about 2-3 days, and you had about a 5% chance, maybe, of surviving it. Then there was the septicemic version. I don’t remember its dissemination vector but I believe it was basically sepsis (hence the name, and it was the one that killed in hours, and the survival rate was basically zilch.
Modern medicine improved those odds, at least in the first two versions, but with antibiotic resistance, I’d imagine the odds going back to the medieval ones. I know the damn thing has been endemic in the western US for at least a century. When I was an undergrad in Dublin, a grad student friend of mine told a tale of her undergrad days during a small outbreak in California. It made the international news, and at least a day before they announced that the medical experts had figured out what it was, the head of the Medieval History department at TCD told her class, “They’ve got plague!”. I believe it turned out to be from flea bites from raccoons living in chimneys.
A vaccine against this thing would be a Very Good Thing, as long as isn’t mRNA.
The problem with the pulmonic form is speed of infection…. not enough time to have antibiotics help. Jim Henson of Muppet fame had a treatable standard variety infection but overwhelmed him before meds could help… as he delayed. The septicemic form is just one that has gone fully systemic…multi-organ with coagulopathy. By that time the infection is exponential, and time is gone.
I believe it turned out to be from flea bites from raccoons living in chimneys.
A vaccine against this thing would be a Very Good Thing, as long as isn’t mRNA.
Or, you know, you don’t let raccoons live in your house.
(I know, it happens. But one of the reasons plague mostly disappeared in Europe and North America is because we did non-medical things to prevent having to deal with it.)
In the late 1970s my brother was quarantined at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico because of an outbreak of plague among the locals.
Anyone who comes into the United States should be tested for infectious diseases from their home country. Or show proof of vaccination for measles, polio, etc. President Trump should restrict immigration, tourist visits, student visas, etc from those countries. When traveling to Africa, I had to have proof of yellow fever vaccination.
I also think that anyone caught crossing illegally should also be photographed, finger printed and DNA swabbed before deportation. The data should be put into a secure database. If the person shows up again at our border, then severe jail time.
is primarily spread through the bite of infected fleas that typically live on rodents
Didn’t they do a study (SCIENCE!, you know) recently that told us to stop blaming the fleas?
I have some serious conflicting thoughts about any news service running a story like this, much less a reputable source such as LI. Perhaps it’s legitimate news that readers should know of, but there remains such a large segment of the population still living their lives in fear after the well-orchestrated Covid scare that I am dubious of the wisdom of spreading these stories. Fauci and company are still out there beating the drums of doom and gloom. Just saying……
I taught FLying at Princeton airport circa 2003. A large percent of the students were big pharma engineers. They stated coming up with new antibiotics for resistant strains of things is no big deal.
Discuss:
We were in the Tahoe area in the 1980’s. We saw a beautiful picnic area, empty, at noon. As we ate our lunch, I noticed a sign that said “DANGER”.
I went over to read that squirrels infected with Bubonic plague were in the area, with a list of things not to do.
We felt pretty itchy on the drive home.
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