#5 raised an eyebrow with me.
I guess we’ll find out?
Ping!
Thanks for digging this up. I mentioned it to another FReeper who I’d, well, have to go dig this up for. thx
Black....Death? can we still say that?
Good find, thanks!
#5 does seems to fit the bill.
Wow, great read, by a high schooler no less. Let’s hope she lasts through this plague, she’ll have a bright future.
They must have had ‘Rats back then too.
Today we call them democrats.
Paralysis and virus and now ebola brought to you by the modern ‘rat party.
There were three forms of the disease: bubonic, wherein the major symptom was a highly swollen lymph node, septicemic, a blood infection, and pneumonic, where the disease was contracted from inhalation of infected droplets. All of these can be caused by Yersinia pestis, and that isn't true for the alternates. So either we're dealing with more than one simultaneous plague, perhaps as many as three, or we're dealing with one disease organism that causes all three. For the latter, Y. pestis seems the best, but not the only, fit.
Historical epidemiology has another couple of mystery plagues: the Plague of Athens (429 BC) that has never been convincingly identified and that has been theorized to be an Ebola sort of virus as well as Yersinia pestis, typhus, smallpox, measles, etc, etc; and the Plague of Justinian (AD 541) that most authorities think to be a strain of Y. pestis that became extinct afterwards, but in fact could have been nearly any of the others. These plagues were world-changers: the first determined the eventual outcome of the Peloponnesian War and hence much of the subsequent history of the West, and the second, one of the factors that so depopulated north Africa and Asia Minor that the onslaught of Islam in the next century became possible.
Fun stuff to read about and consider in the comfort of one's study, not so much fun to live through. I don't think we're about to do any such thing, but then there were people who said that in the 14th and 6th centuries AD, and 5th century BC that probably said the same.
#5 seems interesting to me, too. I’m less sure about #1, and the argument that the fleas only jump off the rats after the rats die, to dine on humans. At least in my experience, fleas will jump right off a healthy cat or dog onto a bed, a human, the floor, etc.
No. Wikipedia isn’t great, but for this it suffices: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague Bubonic plague still happens - go to the link for pics. If caught early, it is treatable with antibiotics. Why? Because it is caused by bacteria. Ebola is a virus. Totally different.
Why does the CDC own a patent on Ebola ‘invention?’
http://www.naturalnews.com/046290_ebola_patent_vaccines_profit_motive.html#
#2 sounds absurd
Black death was traced genetically to a bacteria...
Not a virus..
My idea is to go into a secluded area with some friends and a few beautiful girls and tell stories about putting the Devil in Hell till the plague passes. Kind of like what Bocccaccio did in THE DECAMERON.
On second thought forget the friends, bring on the girls!
But at my age, after I drop a blue pill, I will have forgotten why they were here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron
Fringe kook theory of the week. Yersinia pestis has been clearly identified as the infectious agent from european plague pits.
Successful start to Agenda 21 — introduce a high mortality and communicable disease into the general population.
Just wondering...
And DNA suggests Pasturella Pestis was the cause of Justinian plague an the bubonic plague...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Like the Spanish (1918) Flu, it is possible that in the most lethal forms, all three cause a cytokine storm and turn the body’s immune system against the body itself.