And the one FoodNet stopped monitoring is not the bubonic plague. In light of the recent nationwide Cyclospora outbreak, this ten month old post has gone viral on Bluesky*:

It’s absolutely correct (and nobody could have foreseen this, etc.! lolsob). Those are the organisms FoodNet is no longer surveilling. But social media being what it is, people started panicking about bubonic plague, so I’ll lay this out very clearly:

The organism that FoodNet used to monitor is Yersinia enterocolitica, a food borne pathogen, and not Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the bubonic plague.

Y. enterocolitica isn’t something you want to get, as it causes diarrhea and vomiting, but it’s not TEH KILLER DETH PLAGUE.

Now back to all the horrible things.

*I have no idea what is taking place on Elon Musk’s white supremacist site.