Black death

As if central Africa hasn't had enough troubles with Ebola, civil war, massacres of innocents, massacres of peacekeepers, volcanos, HIV and lousy governments who send all their aid money to Swiss bank accounts, we now see they have an outbreak of Bubonic Plague.
CDC module on the plague is here..
Of course, plague is still found in the USA in rodents in the southwest, and IHS docs see a case or two every year among hunters.
However, this NYCity couple was lucky that their doctors recognized it and treated them with gentamycin instead of the usual "cephalokillitall"...
A good example of plague epidemics is found in the book The Plague...which is an analogy for the breakdown of civilization and the denial of the ordinary Frenchmen under the Nazis...however some chose "to side with the patient, not the disease" and recognized and resisted the "plague"...Camus worked with the resistance of Le Chambon, a small christian enclave that hid Jews...
Some would say these lessons need to be learned by the American people, who ignore the "loss of civil liberties" and fascism of the Bush "regieme", but one suspects when these people are silent on atrocities such as the Manila bombings last weekend, then they are supporting the disease, not the patient...
Albert Camus, call your office...