The reason it isn’t a huge threat is isn’t because we’ve gotten so much better at treating it, it’s that our hygiene has improved so much.

I mean our hygiene has gotten better, but the actual reason it isn’t that much of a threat anymore is because it’s a bacterial infection and we now have antibiotics.

Bacterial diseases are still worrisome due to some strains adapting a resistance to certain antibiotics, but they are much more manageable than viral outbreaks.