Thanks Eleutheria5.
- UK 'plague village' offers lesson for a country under lockdown [03/24/2020]
- European genes altered by Black Death [02/04/2014]
- Medieval DNA, Modern Medicine (Lessons From The Black Death) [10/16/2007]
Posted on 12/17/2023 1:17:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The Black Death’s reign of terror lasted for more than 400 years. By culling up to 50% of the population of Europe, the Great Plague guaranteed its place in the history books. Yet while accounts of the Black Death have focused graphically on those who died, the stories of those who survived have gone untold. Until now.
The Riddle of the Plague Survivors focuses on those who walked away unaffected. Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease? How could anyone survive in the face of what is described as one of the most pathogenic bacterial agents known to humankind? This 60-minute documentary traces the work of American geneticist Steven O’Brien as he follows his hunch that genes are at the heart of this mystery.
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Where was Fauci?
We’re all descended from those who survived.
Ivermectin.
Thanks Eleutheria5.
Must be!
Masks. Definitely the masks.
From the video description, seems it has it backwards. It’s not the quarantining of villages that’s of interest, it’s the genetic resistance that led to fewer deaths within them.
I know a woman who is a direct descendant of one of these villages and who has been the subject of these genetic studies. Dunno the conclusions drawn, but she’s a freak job, so perhaps that’s part of it.
At least there mask where much cooler than our mask. Just saying.
Classic.
If you’re alive today, then somebody in your genealogy obviously survived the black death... Otherwise, you wouldn’t be alive.
Being of Scots’ descent on one side, I say it was the “uisge breatha” that preserved that branch of the family.
"‘Ahem!’ Mr Culpeper said suddenly. ‘I’ll prove it to you. When I was physician to Saye’s Horse, and fought the King—or rather the man Charles Stuart—in Oxfordshire (I had my learning at Cambridge), the plague was very hot all around us. I saw it at close hands. He who says I am ignorant of the plague, for example, is altogether beside the bridge.’
‘We grant it,’ said Puck solemnly. ‘But why talk of the plague this rare night?’"
maybe it was the cats.
Or were never exposed to it.
Would be interesting to find out if they were silversmiths. I am told those working with silver had that antibiotic edge silver provides
“I am told those working with silver had that antibiotic edge silver provides.”
Copper and it’s alloys do also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper
Nope... They mined Lead... lol
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