Posted on 09/23/2023 11:35:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I’ve never bought into the flea bite theory.
It’s more likely that Y Pestis made the jump from animal to human due to human consumption of marmots and other carriers of the disease.
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I agree. The human digest tract is predetermined to be the primary vector to spread deadly viruses. This vector has caused all of the evolutionary mutations which so drastically changed us from our primitive primate ancestors of 3 million years ago.
Why would 1340 be any different?
Zonulin is the primary infection facilitator.
Also known as “whistle pigs” too, here in Pennsylvania.
Sounds like more "Gain of Function Research".
So Punxsutawney Phil is a whistle pig!
Because of cleanliness jewish people were less likely to catch it.Many people of the time therefore blamed the joooos!!!
Hahahaha...with that Selfie Stick, he is certain to poke a hole in someone with that sharp beak!
I didn’t know Kyrgyzstan was Christian before it became Islamic.
Wuhanistan.
Yep. Bubonic Plague, various types of influenza, COVID and
many sorts of animal diseases come from China.
My father was in China during WWII. He said it was the
filthiest place he ever seen, along with India.
Because of his experiences there he never ate Chinese food
or entered a Chinese restaurants til the day he died.
After the war my father worked at Walter Reed in the vaccine
division. He knew something about infectious diseases.
first of all, Black death killed about third of the population in Europe. All the traditional historians and history records agree to this number. Anything more is a present day exaggeration. Media now like to exaggerate everything!
But Europe was always exposed to Asia and Africa, one way or other there were always travel routes active.
Population of Americas and Pacific islanders were isolated, so when first European arrived, the population was devastated.
The smallpox and other European diseases actually often preceded actual European visitors.
E.g. Peruvian Incas were already devastated by smallpox when Pizarro showed up.
Christianity preceded Islam by about 800 years.
I have had food poisoning only twice in my life. Both times the result of eating Chinese food.
“Most historians think that the plague killed somewhere between 30% and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.“
“Bring out your dead”
Very interesting as well.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63316538
“The Black Death is one of the most significant, deadliest and bleakest moments in human history. It is estimated that up to 200 million people died.
Researchers suspected an event of such enormity must have shaped human evolution. They analysed DNA taken from the teeth of 206 ancient skeletons and were able to precisely date the human remains to before, during or after the Black Death.
The analysis included bones from the East Smithfield plague pits which were used for mass burials in London with more samples coming from Denmark.
The standout finding, published in the journal Nature, surrounded mutations in a gene called ERAP2.
If you had the right mutations you were 40% more likely to survive the plague.
“That's huge, it's a huge effect, it's a surprise to find something like that in the human genome,” Professor Luis Barreiro, from the University of Chicago, told me.”
Thanks for posting.
“Zonulin is the primary infection facilitator.”
I had never heard of such a critter as Zonulin. It was interesting for me to discover that it controls the permeability of the cells of the intestine. I learn something new every day.
Yes,but I didn’t know Chritianity had reached all the way to Kyrgyzstan before Islam did. I would have guessed they were still pagan or maybe even Buddhist.
if you get’em trapped in a cave and their eyes go red, leave ‘em be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0YR6wNco5k
at 1:51.
Yup, odd - Christianity had reached all the way to Kyrgyzstan but has yet to reach New York City....
Until the 21st century, when the pandemic of mental illness known as "liberalism" or "progressivism" or "wokism" surpassed it in this odious distinction.
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