The Black Plague Is Back--And It's Pissed!

Sure, we made it through nuclear winters, mega-famines, global cooling, acid rain, bird flu, death by fluoride, Y2K, SARS, MAD cow and Chernobyl, Ebola and killer bees, MERSA virus, Aids, HepC and tainted blood, but that's junior league compared to what is on the horizon for planet earth:

A bacterium known as Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague, known in medieval times as the Black Death when it was spread by infected fleas, and the more dangerous pneumonic plague, spread from one person to another through coughing or sneezing.

"Although the number of human cases of plague is relatively low, it would be a mistake to overlook its threat to humanity, because of the disease's inherent communicability, rapid spread, rapid clinical course, and high mortality if left untreated," they wrote in the journal Public Library of Science journal PloS Medicine.

While it has only killed some 100 to 200 people annually over the past 20 years, plague has appeared in new countries in recent decades and is now shifting into Africa, Michael Begon, an ecologist at the University of Liverpool and colleagues said.

Move over global warming, there is a new bitch in town.

I think I can speak for the whole universe when I say that world governments need to start pouring billions, perhaps trillions, into research and find a cure right the hell now before this whole plague business wipes out hundreds of billions of our fellow humans--just like that super-bug last year that got the evil GWB in so much trouble because he hates the poor and didn't get enough pills made to stop the impending death. Remember that? Ya, it was HORRIBLE!

Now is the time to panic. Not tomorrow or early next week, but NOW! If my typing in caps isn't warning enough for you, then there is no hope left, for you are already dead.

Kill all the rats and hookers, the plague is upon us!!

**How moral are you? Take Mitchieville's Morality Quiz