How Devastating was the Black Death?

Re:How Devastating was the Black Death? by ajross on Thursday July 20, 2017 @12:26AM (#14810011)

Influenza has a cheap and very effective family of vaccines. Malaria doesn't. People in "the west" "go bananas" over Malaria because it's not reasonably preventable.

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Re:How Devastating was the Black Death? by maxerickson on Thursday July 20, 2017 @07:27AM (#14811505)

Malaria was eradicated in the US and Europe. It used to be endemic. Eradication is a pretty solid way to prevent it.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...

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Re:How Devastating was the Black Death? by ajross on Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:52AM (#14812975)

Except it hasn't worked everywhere. The point was that this was a practical issue and not a cultural one. Someone in "the west" who is paranoid about getting the flu just gets a flu shot. The same paranoia for Malaria has no treatment, so the same person with the same fears ends up "going bananas" about travel to Central America or whatnot.

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Re:How Devastating was the Black Death? by melling on Thursday July 20, 2017 @07:13AM (#14811458)

A lot of work is going into reducing the effects of malaria:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Mapping-the-End-of-Malaria

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