[blam]

"Bog mummies are 1000, or more, years older than when the black death occurred."

I was afraid that that was the case. (There must be something somewhere we could check, huh?)

[EBUCK]

There have been exhumations performed on folks that supposedly died from the plague. There have also been supposedly successful "harvesting" exhumations. I'll look it up to see what they found.

EBUCK

[curmudgeonII]

There must be something somewhere we could check, huh?

The organism which, reputedly, causes plague [it was called Pasteurella pestis when I taught microbiology] is comparatively fragile outside of a living body. Doubtful if it could survive hundreds of years.

On the other hand, if the plague affected the northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia there might well be some victims buried in the permafrost. Odds [IMO] would be much higher to recover some of the caustive entity in this case.