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BLACK DEATH DOOM - It was NOT bubonic plague
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1341135:MV8xNDQ3MzQ4XzIzODU2MTExXzMzQzg4NDZB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1336565] [quote:dfw 1289917] I was some form of hemorragic, pneumonic plague. Rich people moved to monasteries and escaped infection there. Issac Newton did this. If this was bubonic plague, no community would have escaped infection. You have good insight. Very few people have figured this out. [/quote] Thats because it was the church doing it. Many accounts of someone coming to the edge of town in a cloak and releasing a vapor and the same rising from the sewers. They killed millions then and will again if let at it. [/quote] Um, no. You're repeating the stories of Jews "poisoning the wells" but assigning it to the Catholic Church for some reason. Thousands of Jews were murdered and their communities destroyed when they were blamed for the Black Death - something I'm sure many Jew-hating GLPers approve of and would happily join in on if the opportunity ever arose again. [/quote]
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That's my opinion, anyway.
The commonly accepted explanation is that the Black Death that killed 30% - 50% of the population of Europe was the bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas carried by rats. There are a number of difficulties with this.
The Black Death wiped out 50% of the population of Iceland. Well, how many rats were there in Iceland? Zero. None. No rats because it's too cold.
The Black Death moved far too quickly to be transmitted by fleas, at a rate of several miles per day.
The symptoms were different from bubonic plague and it killed much quicker.
So what was it and when is it coming back to inflict a massive death toll?
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