It's pretty common for it to have happened to someone, in a given year. It's so unlikely to happen to any given individual, that it's not worth worrying about.
It is important to know that some places still have endemic infection in rodents.
For example, in a world were some people (even those of a medical background, looking at data) die of rabies because "oh look a wild animal approaching with a sad face, he wants a little cuddle" ("it's sick, madam").
Wasnt he the hacker in the The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
The girl with the dragon tattoo, The girl who played with fire and The girl who kicked the hornets nest.
Bubonic plague however is the most common form of plague worldwide.
According to the WHO, between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases out of the worlds population of 8.2 billion, of which 584 people died. so we can safely say we are safe
I love the word Plague, I keep saying it in my head.
> According to the WHO, between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases out of the worlds population of 8.2 billion, of which 584 people died. so we can safely say we are safe
If you imagined a counterfactual reality in which the plague had disappeared (it has not), in which death would the problem (that's subjective), in which the one in a million events would be literally negligible (they are not), then you would for some reason conclude that irrational label of "safety".
