Black Death origin mystery solved after 675 years, researchers say

CBS ^ | JUNE 15, 2022 / 11:52 AM | Staff

[Red Badger]

Plagggue....................

[Flag_This]

Was it an an ancient lab in Wuhan?

[Red Badger]

Close....................

[DannyTN]

Clearly Fauci is a time traveler and was funding biowarfare research in Kyrgyzstan.

[teeman8r]

if they had only worn their masks...

[M Kehoe]

Where ever the plague originated, you can be sure either the Chinese or the democrats had something to do with it.

5.56mm

[Psalm 73]

Just got finished reading “The Plague” by Albert Camus - worth a read if you’re so inclined.

[Noumenon]

Bring out your dead...

[Tell It Right]

This is always an issue with cool periods like the Little Ice Age (AD 1300-1800's), Dark Age (AD 300-900), and Greek Dark Age (1100 BC-300 BC). The left wants us to freak out over the Modern Warm Period, when it's the cool periods that's always the killer (low crop yields, less predictable rain patterns, higher deaths by plague).

What's bad is each cool period since the Holocene Epoch (BC 5,500) is worse than the prior one. So when our Modern Warm Period is over (I predict in around 2 to 4 centuries) the next cool period will be even worse than the LIA.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I’m feeling better...

[Honest Nigerian]

Crap claim.
This “discovery” has been well-known for a long time.
Mike Duncan covers it in his podcasts.

[z3n]

Black Death Origin Mystery solved...

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Best 3 out of 5!

[dfwgator]

No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a minute.

[Rockingham]

Thanks. That is a neat bit of medical detection that settles a long standing controversy. Yersinia Pestis was always the best suspect, and definitive proof helps to redirect attention to other issues. It also makes sense of oddities like why lavender farmers were mostly immune: routine contact with the essential oils from their crop made them repellant to the fleas that carry plague.

[Rockingham]

Thanks. That is a neat bit of medical detection that settles a long standing controversy. Yersinia Pestis was always the best suspect, and definitive proof helps to redirect attention to other issues. It also makes sense of oddities like why lavender farmers were mostly immune: routine contact with the essential oils from their crop made them repellant to the fleas that carry plague.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I think I’ll go for a walk.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

“Those were the days!” Bill-zebub Gates looks fondly on a 60% population reduction.

[poinq]

Do you ever read these things and say, are they just writing this in a sensational way just to get more funding?

[dfwgator]

You’re not fooling anyone, you know.