Posted on 02/20/2017 6:10:07 PM PST by Rebelbase
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico’s native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of salmonella from Europe, a pair of studies suggest.
In one study, researchers say they have recovered DNA of the stomach bacterium from burials in Mexico linked to a 1540s epidemic that killed up to 80% of the country's native inhabitants. The team reports its findings in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server on 8 February1.
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Salmonella will ruin your day, no doubt about it.
Maybe all that human sacrifice had something to do with it...
Caused by eating live beating hearts torn out of innocent victims? Funny how that works!
Probably got some bad Mexican food.
I can see it now: more demands for reparations from descendants of white Europeans.
The salmon mousse.
You say that as if it is a bad thing.
After all diversity is our strength and who are we to judge other people’s cultures?
I must have been a real sh*t storm.
Always the white man’s fault, eh?
Or bad Mexicans.
They drank the water.
You NEVER drink the water in Mexico.
lol!!
Yeah I’ve had more than a handful of family get salmonella and it was a horrible few days or so for them!
But they didn’t die and I find it hard to believe a civilization was wiped out by it.
The Spanish arriving there was like the Allied armies rolling into the death camps. The Spanish did humanity a service there.
But I didn’t eat the mousse
How can that be?All food was healthy and organic.So here we are in 2017 and Mexican third world practices are still making people sick. Not much progress,eh?
Montezuma’s Revenge
Chicken ceviche!
I worked at a large Summer retreat in the Summer of 1965. About a week into the Summer and thankfully before the guests arrived, nearly the entire staff of 450 came down with food poisoning.
We finally figured out that everyone who got sick had eaten the chicken and rice. I awoke in the night and my room mate asked. You got it too? I barely made it to the bathroom.
The Staff Dr. was in the rec room of the boys dorm passing out paregoric in paper cups from gallon jugs. His wife was doing the same in the girl’s dorm. After around an hour it took effect. Until then it was really bad.
When I was a kid, President Eisenhower got food poisoning at some outdoor event. Sort of a big picnic. They eventually said it was the potato salad. Everyone blamed the mayonnaise in the salad.
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