Did anyone survive the plague

Answer 1

The previous answer (quoted below) makes absolutely no sense. For one, the plague was caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis), NOT a virus. So it does not enter the body in the same way that a virus does. Get your facts straight.

Secondly, even if someone does carry a mutation to a virus, that mutation infers immunity only to that one virus, and only so long as that virus does not acquire an alternative mode of entry. All viruses rapidly evolve, and HIV has been one of the most elusive due to its fast rate of mutation/evolution, so it is not wise to push your luck living a high risk lifestyle (and possibly passing the virus on to countless others). That's just plain ignorant.

If someone really knows the answer to this question, I am also interested.

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"There was ( and still is ! ) a special strain of DNA that a certain percentage of Europeans had that is mutated in such a way that VIRUSES in particular cannot bond with their T cells or any blood cells. Therefore the virus could never replicate. I will let everyone in on a special piece of information relating to this question: If you have an ancestor that survived the Black Death, you may be one of the 3% of European/ Mediterainian descendants that are NOW COMPLETELY IMMUNE to another virus, a modern age plague known as HIV?AIDS. There have been a series of genetic and scientific tests in the past decade to determine the possibility of this theory, I was a DNA donor for this research along with my mother. I have immunity to HIV and so does my mother. I was chosen for testing because my father was an I.V. heroin addict and he contracted HIV early in my parents marriage. My mother was 9 weeks pregnant with me when my father was diagnosed. They continued to have unprotected sex throughout the pregnancy as well as after, and I have had 68 HIV/AIDS tests in my lifetime all resulting negative. My mother has had atleast 40 herself and her results were the same. My father died in September 1989 from liver failure due to full blown AIDS."

Answer 2

A french doctor survived the plage by draining the bueboes and applying hot rods. This therapy saved some lives. Now a days, it is cured by antibiotics.

ANSWER:

Yes, some people had a natural resistance to it, and once having had the disease, were consequently immune to it forever.

Answer 3

The plague did not kill the entire human race, which should be apparent since you and I are still here. If you intended to ask whether the mortality rate of the plague was 100%, no, some people do recover.

Answer 4

Because some people are extremely lucky. Also, some poor people ate moldy bread [with the good kind of mold, the one they make antibiotics out of].

Answer 5

yes but only a small handful of people. probably about 1 in 30 people survived

Answer 6

Yes. The Black Death, as the Bubonic Plague is known, killed about 75 million people, about 30% to 60% of the European population.