Everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death that killed millions from the middle ages until recently. An interesting read.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/black-death-0013083

PermeateFree said:

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death that killed millions from the middle ages until recently. An interesting read.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/black-death-0013083

The marmots in Mongolia still carry it.

Tamb said:

PermeateFree said:

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death that killed millions from the middle ages until recently. An interesting read.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/black-death-0013083

The marmots in Mongolia still carry it.

Occasional but regular small outbreaks in the USA.

Aye, there are a dozen or so cases every year in the USA, mostly around New Mexico/Colorado.

sarahs mum said:

Tamb said:

PermeateFree said:

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Black Death that killed millions from the middle ages until recently. An interesting read.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/black-death-0013083

The marmots in Mongolia still carry it.

Occasional but regular small outbreaks in the USA.

Everything?

The black death was not a disease of rats that fleas carried to humans. It was a disease of humans that fleas carried to rats. It was invariably fatal to rats, which means that rats were not the carriers and getting rid of rats would not stop the disease. Instead, the fleas (or humans) have to be stopped.

Or to put it another way, the rats were the canaries in the mine. A dead rat is a sign of the presence of the disease.

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

Tamb said:

The marmots in Mongolia still carry it.

Occasional but regular small outbreaks in the USA.

Everything?

The black death was not a disease of rats that fleas carried to humans. It was a disease of humans that fleas carried to rats. It was invariably fatal to rats, which means that rats were not the carriers and getting rid of rats would not stop the disease. Instead, the fleas (or humans) have to be stopped.

Or to put it another way, the rats were the canaries in the mine. A dead rat is a sign of the presence of the disease.

You haven’t read it have you?

britain got hit by the bubonic during the 1970s during the strikes , all that rubbish laying around uncollected encouraged rats