Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by readthenotes1 339 days ago
You left one variant off, apparently:

"Plague occurs in three forms, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic, depending on whether the infection hits the lymph nodes, bloodstream or lungs. Most US cases are bubonic, typically spread via flea bites from infected rodents. "

Given the discussion of the prairie dog die off, it's more interesting than it was mnemonic and not move on it for me fleas

3 comments

Many years ago, I knew a family who named the three squirrels who regularly visited their back yard "Bubonic", "Pneumonic", and "Septicemic". The squirrels did not respond to these names, but the family sure did find it amusing to use them.
Mnemonic Plague

People

Learn

About

Germs

Using

Epidemiology

What a wonderful typo. Death by infected memories.
This is a solid short story prompt.
Cue the Fall Out Boy track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onzL0EM1pKY

You might enjoy the movie Pontypool. I describe it as a zombie movie about linguistics.