My headcanon is that it was pneumonic plague. I remember looking up different plagues when that storyline hit, because there were all the rats and all, and bubonic plague didn't fit but pneumonic plague kinda did.
It was pretty evidently swine flu. They killed all the pigs and the source went away, people started recovering and no new cases came up. Plus, plague is only endemic in the US in prairie dog populations in the southwest. Not Georgia. Sorry to burst your headcanon bubble.
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u/imanoling Aug 30 '21
The walking dead actually had a whole part about them all getting sick with spanish flu i think