New study sheds light on survivors of the Black Death

UofSC ^ | 5/7/2014 | Peggy Binette

[SunkenCiv]

DeWitte has analyzed the skeletal remains of more than 1,000 men, women and children who lived before, during and after the Black Death.

[SunkenCiv]

In before the second Laz would hit it reference.

[cripplecreek]

improvements in survival post-Black Death didn't necessarily equate to good health over a lifespan, but revealed a hardiness to endure disease, including repeated bouts of plague.

Survival of the fittest is a good thing.

[Joe 6-pack]

She could do whatever she wants with my skeleton...

[ClearCase_guy]

1) Frail people tend to die when they get bubonic plague.
2) People who survive bubonic plague show evidence of some hardiness.

[House Atreides]

“She could do whatever she wants with my skeleton...”
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Is that a portion of your skeleton in the box behind her left arm?

[nascarnation]

Shown here lecturing about a boner:

[cripplecreek]

I’m apparently one of those people who can survive anything. That doesn’t mean its always fun.

[Prolixus]

There must have been quiet a "bottle-neck" in population to create this guy:

[Robert A Cook PE]

But, do you reallllly want to find out what Laz does with a hard old boner?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Stop it, you guys! Dammit y’all crack me up! LOL!

[Huskrrrr]

Behave! :0)

[Tau Food]

Worker wages went up after the Black Death.

Our country will be a lot better off once our current crop of seniors are feeding the worms. "Gimme, gimme, gimme! Pay me 'til I tell you to stop."

This world has never seen so much unproductive protoplasm.

[exDemMom]

People of European descent, whose ancestors survived the black death, commonly have a particular immune system variation that is only found rarely in other races. It is thought that this particular variation helped those ancestors survive. That variation could be the basis of the hardiness that Dr. DeWitte has observed.

[clearcarbon]

Perhaps the survivors would have lived even longer had they not contracted the plague.

[BenLurkin]

Mr. Mataz had better take a number.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

As a former archaeologist, I’d just like to say, “I’d like to check her bones”.

Cute lady.

However, I read these same conclusions decades ago when the first studies on the bodies of the plague victims were matched against those of the survivors.

The survivors also improved the gene pool which was flushed out by the plague’s killing the weaker population.

However, in this day and age of political correctness, do we have to change the name of the Black Plague (known in America as President Obama and Mooschelle) to something less racist, such as the “Dark Plague” or the “Not White Plague?

Is it still allowable to put a “plague on your house” curse on someone or do we have to say “May a flock of deadly fleas infest your abode”?

Just asking. Late Friday night. Work is done. Tomatoes to plant tomorrow, cats stomaches to scratch, and fresh Mulberries to eat right from the tree.

Carney - GONE
Shinseki - GONE
OBAMA - WHEN?

[BenLurkin]

Lots of Neanderthal in her...me gusto!

[BenLurkin]

Well, you gotta admit... after all he’s been into...that dude is hard to kill.

[Beowulf9]

One of the guys that survived was Nostradamus.

Course it made him kind of weird.