Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel:
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Posted on 01/21/2023 7:16:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv
One of the most commonly recited facts about plague in Europe was that it was spread by rats. In some parts of the world, the bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, maintains a long-term presence in wild rodents and their fleas. This is called an animal "reservoir".
While plague begins in rodents, it sometimes spills over to humans. Europe may have once hosted animal reservoirs that sparked plague pandemics. But plague could have also been repeatedly reintroduced from Asia. Which of these scenarios was present remains a topic of scientific controversy.
Our recent research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has shown that environmental conditions in Europe would have prevented plague from surviving in persistent, long-term animal reservoirs. How, then, did plague persevere in Europe for so long?
Our study offers two possibilities. One, the plague was being reintroduced from Asian reservoirs. Second, there could have been short- or medium-term temporary reservoirs in Europe. In addition, the two scenarios might have been mutually supportive.
However, the rapid spread of the Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of the next few centuries also suggest slow-moving rats may not have played the critical role in transmitting the disease that is often portrayed.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
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I thought it was the fleas on the rats that spread the disease?
so what is this saying?
It wasn’t rats, bit it might have been Asian rats, and temporarily European rat reservoirs?
Or it was Asians. Probably conducting gain of function studies on the plague virus. And funded by some well meaning European country, since the US wasn’t around yet to provide the stupidity.
BINGO... Fleas it is.. The plague sometimes shows up in the American west.. the fleas on prairie dogs, I think.?
It's one of multiple reasons to be glad we live in a warm period. Only a cultist can be made to hate the things in life that are the good things. The Democrat Party is without a doubt the most prolific cult in our country.
Concur.
Rats spreading death? Some things never change.
Fleas. Zoonotic disease because fleas have no difficulty with infesting and biting transient hosts.
Side note, ivermectin kills fleas on a host. Just sayin’.
You win the thread!
They forgot to wear their plague masks?
The first plague pandemic began in the early sixth century and lasted until the later eighth century. The second pandemic (which included the Black Death) began in the 1330s and lasted five centuries. A third pandemic began in 1894 and remains with us today ...
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1) Circa 600 AD - 800 AD.
2) Circa 1330 AD- 1830 AD.
3) Circa 1894 - 2023.
1) Circa 600 AD, the rise of Islam - the Islamic conquest & destruction of all of North Africa (from where its short boat trip to Spain) and Constantinople, the under belly of Europe.
2) Circa 1330 AD - 1830 AD, the rise of Islamic empires.
3) Circa 1894 AD and modern Islamic invasion of Europe ...
You do the math.
And here I thought that the science was settled….
I thought it was the fleas on the rats that spread the disease?
That has always been the general consensus. Fleas don’t need rats to be their hosts. Few if any of the flees that have bitten me jumped off a rat. My guess is that people in the middle ages were likely better at catching and killing rats than their modern counterparts, but that they didn’t have as many options when it came to poisons that used to be available to consumers these days.
Has anyone here tried the latest available rodent “poisons”? They are basically worthless. They seem to be based on the principal that the rodent will eat so much of it that it will get a bad tummy ache and leave. The active ingredient is now “Cholecalciferol which uses NO anti-coagulants or neurotoxins.” If you have a stash of the original D-con... it is now worth quite a lot. If the rats currently invading your domicile have fleas that are carrying the plague you had best look for someone who can get ahold of more lethal options.
Of course, I doubt whether any of the fleas which have munched on me over the years came from a rat. Most came from Fido or Fluffy or jumped on me from grass or bushes as they were waiting for some warm-blooded animal to come along.
Double-check: is there evidence of Mass Death among Islamic countries right before, or during, those times?
...or are you suggesting immunological naievete in Europe, similar to what Native Americans went through when first exposed to European diseases?
“The plague sometimes shows up in the American west.. the fleas on prairie dogs, I think.?”
Rodents in general. Chipmunks are prolific carriers for some reason. Nebraska, four corners area.
Scientists studying bubonic plague routinely use Madagascar as a place for laboratory studies due to the high rate of transmission.
Bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system. There is a cure, but apparently eradication isn’t possible.
Nope. It was spread by Democrats
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel:
Prairie Dog:
Rats from Wuhan.....just sayin!
Especially the Rats in DC.
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