A Plague on All Houses

Fay Voshell / American Thinker

In 1345, the Mongol hordes besieging Kaffa were being decimated by the Black Death.  Desperate, the leaders of the Mongol army figured it would take only a few plague-ridden corpses to infect and destroy all the inhabitants of the city. Everyone would die, Mongols and Christians together.

Eye witness Gabriele de’ Mussi tells us what happened next:

“Whereupon the Tartars (Mongols), worn out by this pestilential disease, and falling on all sides as if thunderstruck, and seeing that they were perishing hopelessly, ordered the corpses to be placed upon their engines and thrown into the city of Kaffa. Accordingly were the bodies of the dead hurled over the walls, so that the Christians were not able to hide or protect themselves from this danger, although they carried away as many as possible and threw them into the sea.” 

Historians later would quibble over the accuracy of de’ Mussi’s account.  Experts in medieval warfare along with knowledgeable army tacticians would dispute the logistics of catapulting decaying, disease ridden bodies over high city walls. 

Nonetheless, the idea that it only takes a few diseased humans to infect entire cities was correct then and now, academic arguments aside.

The fact is that communicable diseases know no boundaries.

This is why Americans, particularly those who have decided not to vaccinate their children against the most common communicable diseases, should be very concerned about the almost entirely unregulated transportation of third world children (and adults) into the midst of crowded population centers.  It is why all parents should be concerned about the fact undocumented aliens are being flown all over the United States to God knows where.

read more at American Thinker:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/a_plague_on_all_houses.html