So many dots over my favorite vacation areas! Even one over the place I was born.
I’ve heard stories that the plague boomed in Europe as a result of superstitious departures from biblical Christian doctrine leading to a holocaust of cats, who were viewed as helpers of witchcraft with their mysterious reflective eyes. But the cats got their revenge in the burgeoning rat population which in turn increased the presence of that vector of the plague. And it was to be centuries before anything like antibiotics were understood.