The Chances Of Surviving The Black Death

Current Archaeology ^ | 3-29-2008

[Ciexyz]

Our ancestors who survived bequeathed us stronger, healthier genes.

[stormer]

Right you are. I knew a man who died of the plague he picked up rabbit hunting in eastern Oregon in the early 80s. The doctors didn't figure out what he had until it was too late.

[VOA]

(repost from a previous FR thread on The Black Death/Plague)

Link to the site for the Black Death episode on PBS’s “Secrets
of the Dead” series.
A good show about who lived, who died and maybe why.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/

[LiberConservative]

HillaryCare. That is the ONLY answer. Our ONLY hope.

[Rastus]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Obama.

[tet68]

Ah yes. Even the children remember.

Ring around the rosey
(the buboe or symtom of the plague)

A pocket full of poseys
( a nosegay of flowers to cover the smell of death)

Ashes, ashes, we ALL fall down.
(everyone dies)

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"I thought this was going to be a thread about Obama."

LOL!

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[djf]

The very best way was to have two parents that both had the Delta-32 mutation.

[Judith Anne]

I followed the link, to a couple of others. Absolutely mind-boggling.

[kitchen]

The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people.

And it still does. Ground squirrels, prairie dogs, and the enviro-weenies' favorite - the black footed ferret - all are flea bags. A veritable plague incubator, long recognized and consequently nearly eradicated. Also one of the reasons you don't hunt rabbits until after a good hard frost. Every few years a case of plague shows up NW Colorado; fortunately some old sawbones recognizes the symptoms in time.

[DakotaGator]

Now there’s something you don’t run across every day ;-) Glad the treatment worked!

[DakotaGator]

Pretty bad.

I had to insist on one set of innoculations. Otherwise the medical powers that be would have failed me...as they did your friend.

[DakotaGator]

Horrifying how all of the old scourges are returning! And that in no small part due to the environazis!!

[21twelve]

I just got done watching “I am Legend” with my son. Will Smith against the diseased Zombies in Manhattan. I mentioned to him that it won't surprise me when some type of deadly epidemic does come again (probably NOT zombies though ;) It is only a matter of time. And PERHAPS with the better technology we have nowadays we can stop it/slow it down before it kills 50% of us.

[Myrddin]

Me too. I did my graduate work in pathogenic bacteriology. I was floored when I heard the lab results.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Bellflower]

It was noted that the rich who drank out of and ate off from silver came down with the plague less often. Silver is a known germ killer.

[Bellflower]

Not killing off the cats that kept the rats carrying the fleas in check wouldn’t have hurt either.

Right. China is killing off their cats, which were many, to prepare for the Olympics. They better watch out for a plague. They are killing the cats horribly.

[Caipirabob]

I just got done watching “I am Legend” with my son.

Check out "28 Days" and "28 Weeks Later". I think they were both superior movies to Will's Smith's work.