"The computer models showed that human-to-human transmission would have resulted in a gradually growing number of deaths that peaked later than what actually happened. Rat-flea transmission would have peaked around the right time, but cause more deaths than actually occurred. But human-ectoparasite transmission nailed it: for nearly all of the outbreaks, it best fit the timeline and death rate in the historical record."
Rats may not have been the reason for the Black Death.
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| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 22, 2019 12:35 PM |
I love it when history is revised. And I've read this one before, although it hasn't caught on yet. There just isn't enough of a correlation between the rat population and the plague.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 22, 2019 11:15 AM |
Black death is racist
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 22, 2019 11:45 AM |
Fleash on rashz
Who knew?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 22, 2019 11:48 AM |
It was those filthy Jews poisoning our wells.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 22, 2019 11:49 AM |
Jews are traitors........... except the ones who like me.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 22, 2019 11:57 AM |
The Catholic Church fomented Jew hatred for almost two eons, were instrumental in its culturally entrenchment. Trump is a product of that anti-Jewish culture.
Antisemitism in popular European Christian (Catholic) culture escalated beginning in the 13th century. Blood libels and host desecration drew popular attention and led to many cases of persecution against Jews. Many believed Jews poisoned wells to cause plagues.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 22, 2019 12:08 PM |
Maybe this is more evidence that I'm on the wrong timeline, but I've heard since at least the 1980s that it wasn't the rats themselves but the fleas and lice they carried with them.
And I also quickly found a scientific article from 1925 that talks about plague being spread by ectoparasites.
Are we sure this is new information?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 22, 2019 12:35 PM |