Manuel,have you ever heard of the bubonic plague? It was very popular around here are one time...
I blame the ‘Rats for imposing a substandard health care system on Medieval Europe.
I thought it has long been known that fleas were the cause...
No loyalty in fleas.
The rat dies and the fleas just jump ship....or jump rat in this case.
Manuel,have you ever heard of the bubonic plague? It was very popular around here are one time...
I never heard that anyone blamed rats
It was the fleas on the rats
This is new?
BTW just posted about how the Japanese during WW2 perfectec a bio warfare bomb capable of delivering millions of plague infected fleas- and planned to use it against California as soon as they got a long range delivery system- which was only months from happening before we put an end to the madness at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Japanese had tested their bio weapons on our POWs and Chinese to find the most lethal weapon ( plague) and delivery of plague by fleas -
The Japanese field tested their biowarfare- by seeding Chinese cities when they withdrew
The Chinese death toll from Japanese bio warfare was estimated at 250,000
So this research has been around for decades
Thanks History Channel “ Secrets of the Axis”
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population. "
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population."
I blame the demonRATS for about everything bad...I guess that includes the plague, no?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
In September 1970, in Vietnam, I was scheduled to go on R&R. One of the items that you had to do for R&R was to get your immunizations updated. So I went with 2 of my buddies to the Vungtau Air Base and we reported to the medical facility there.
A few days later all 3 of us had bubonic plague and were hospitalized. I spent 24 days in the hospital on antibiotics (streptomycin) and went from 185 pounds to 115 pounds. They eventually figured out that the plague vaccine was defective and virulent.
So, on matters of bubonic plague, I have first hand knowledge.
Rats are to blame for a lot of black deaths.
Spread by seamen.
More revisionist blather ...
The rats have hired a P.R. team to scrub their past and finger the insects.
Figures.
Rats.
The term “Black Death” was not used during the Middle Ages but was coined later. The same goes for “Renaissance,” “Industrial Revolution” and “Roaring Twenties,” labels which were coined long after the periods to which they refer.
I recall that in London at the time they thought that dogs were the cause of the plague and set out to exterminate dogs.
Of course, with no dogs to kill rats the rat population exploded.
And this is new News ???? How stupid, learned this as a child ....
I think I’m too obsessed with politics. I was wondering what the Democrats had to do with the plague…