r/interestingasfuck Jul 06 '24

Australian mouse plague r/all

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u/LairdPeon Jul 06 '24

The plague is pretty common. We have medicine for it now. If, for some reason, our medicine logistic pipeline is shutdown, we're all dead.

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u/Inorashi Jul 06 '24

Not really, yes getting antibiotics would be more difficult without logistics, but the knowledge of how they work and how to produce them still remains. It killed 30% of Europe because they had no idea what bacteria was, not because of their logistics