Originally Posted by
Rochester
Yes, interesting that. Most recent studies seem to point to it being person to person transfer, as the plague front moved at more than 300 miles a week (or month ?) and no rat ever created ever moved that quickly, plus fleas are very much more species specific than is generally realised, so that probably isn't the vector either.
Quoted for absolute truth.
Sick to death of all the appalling behaviour of "gotcha" questions by Journalists who are more interested in the sound of their own voices trying to chuck blame around or set the scene for a witch hunt, and politicians trying to weaponise this that and the other when you'd hope and expect some show of unity and support for the Doctors and researchers desperately working to try and get us all through.
Loaded "Minister, can you guarantee that..." questions etc., no doubt intended to provoke an answer that can be attacked days later "Minister, you promised us back on X date that..." and bogus comparisons with other countries hugely unreliable claims and statistics *cough* China *cough*.
Banging on about the "need" for testing when, in the absence of any test for antibodies (which can show that you've had it and recovered) the present tests do nothing at all but show whether you presently have it or not. A positive does nothing to help cure it in the absence of any antiviral yet to hand and a negative simply means you haven't got it now but can still catch it the next day.
I believe that Italy is at the forefront of testing and numbers tested and it has had naff all effect on reducing their awful death rate.