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Re:The Daily Life of a Medieval King by mistrial9 on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:21AM (#44635425)
> a simple cut that today we would not even think twice about could prove fatal from infection

maybe .. most mammals do not get infections from an ordinary cut.. it is humans that are uniquely weak that way

source: retired medical surgeon

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Re:The Daily Life of a Medieval King by ainiriand on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:28AM (#44636339)
My cat almost died from an infected wound from the bite of another cat, so maybe it depends on the wound.
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Re:The Daily Life of a Medieval King by IAmBroom on Monday July 21, 2025 @03:41PM (#44639536)
Expert fallacy.

Nothing in your career particularly informed you of non-human mammal infection rates, unless you moonlighted as a veterinarian.

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Re:The Daily Life of a Medieval King by thesuitonym on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:58PM (#44640345)
That's why I said `could', instead of `would'.
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