Black Death

yes, but only if it is resistant to antibiotics

>>2575918

Sure, if a particularly nasty virus broke out. Technically speaking if a virus was bad enough pretty much all of mankind could be eliminated.

>>2575918
Considering the viruses that gey stronger and more resistant to antibiotics everyday, then there's a possibility this could happen. However, it would struggle in widely distributed first world countries (i.e. North America and Australia), and may have trouble beginning in overpopulated shitholes as they have little access to anti-biotics.

>>2575934
>Viruses
>Antibiotics
WTF am I reading?

>>2575934
>viruses that get stronger and more resistant to antibiotics
>viruses
>resistant to antibiotics
>viruses
>antibiotics
tippity toppity fucking keke

>>2575934

>viruses
>antibiotics

Kek.

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>>2575934
>virus
>antibiotics

>>2575934
Since you dont understand science let me assist you.
Antibiotics are substances that makes it very hard for bacteria to survive. Enough of it and the bacteria gets wiped out. Viruses aren't alive, antibiotics won't do jack shit to them.
The only way to combat really combat the virus is with the body's natural immune system.

>>2575918

It has. The recent bird flu pandemic reached far more people then the black plague ever did. We are just better at dealing with it nowadays.

The main problem with most historic plagues was the lack of hygiene and proper medical care. Combine that with people livng in close quarters in a city, and you are basically asking for half your population to die.
While any disease capable of causing a modern pandemic is bound to be much worse, the fact that we keep everything clean, know how sicknesses are transmitted, and have dedicated people to treat, care for and if neccesary quarantine patients (not to mention bury them properly) will lessen the impact on society immensely.

>>2576002
who dis

>>2576154
or with vaccines if we are thinking ahead
that stuff they cutting down on in the USA