Posted on 08/01/2007 2:00:38 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
“Bring out your dead!”
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It’d also be interesting to check out the same with cholera outbreaks.
They need to worry about the coming “Green Death”...
"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.
PING
“I’m not dead...”
“Throughout the recent past, there have been movements from the Middle East into southern Europe, and the Middle East population retains a great mix and diversity,” he says.
you know what this means. “ok folks we have to keep letting them in. Don’t want black death, you see?”
Lucky they didn’t have Rachel Carson walking around in 1340 to outlaw rat traps....
ok I misspoke! less genetic diversity didn’t result in the black death but it could lead to other problems
Thanks for posting!
Good read on this era is A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman.
it’s true ,look at Dodi and Princess Diana
Especially when you consider thats its likely any island population will at large be less diversified than a much larger free ranging population. I’m certain that Japan, Iceland, Greenland, Nova Scotia, Australia and nearly every island dwelling populace will show similar trends.
“Good read on this era is A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman.”
Read it, great book. I like Tuchman.
I’m thinking that the slaughter of young men in WWI would not have helped. On the other hand, maybe the influx of American GIs in WWII helped the diversity of the gene pool. :)
Don’t forget the Normans creating the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. They brought lots of Scandinavian and French blood to Sicily.
Ring around the rosey,......Typical description of a buboe.
a pocket full of poseys,....Nosegays of flowers were carried
ashes, ashes,...............to cover the smell of death.
we all fall down............The bodies were burned, all die.
I just love nursery rhymes, don’t you?
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