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Belisaurius555 t1_jadtcn2 wrote

People either died or became immune. Eventually, plagues burn themselves out, running out of new people to infect and being eliminated in the bodies of both the survivors and the victims.

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Linzold OP t1_jadtgxn wrote

Literally HOW DO YOU BECOME IMMUNE TO THE BLACK PLAYUE

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DressCritical t1_jadurst wrote

You get it and live. It was not 100% fatal.

Additionally, if, say, 10% of the population is naturally immune, and you wipe out a third of the population overall with the disease, you end up with 15% of the survivors being naturally immune.

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ADDeviant-again t1_jaea5de wrote

Like everything else. You get it, and survive.

Also, plague did mutate, and morphed through history. When people got bitten by fleas it wasn't as deadly (still bad) as when transmission person to person (by coughing) became possible.

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ADDeviant-again t1_jaearlq wrote

Like everything else. You get it, and survive.

Also, plague did mutate, and morphed through history. When people got bitten by fleas it wasn't as deadly (still bad) as when transmission person to person (by coughing) became possible.

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Bensemus t1_jae6mej wrote

You become immune by surviving the disease. For some they will show no symptoms and it seems like they were always immune. Many will develop symptoms of varying severity and survive the infection. Now they have some immunity to the disease.

You either survive and gain immunity or die.

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