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Horrifying Truth!!! The Deadly Black Plague was Air Born, Not Fleas, say Researchers

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Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say researchers

Evidence from skulls in east London shows plague had to have been airborne to spread so quickly

Archaeologists and forensic scientists who have examined 25 skeletons unearthed in the Clerkenwell area of London a year ago believe they have uncovered the truth about the nature of the Black Death that ravaged Britain and Europe in the mid-14th century.

Analysis of the bodies and of wills registered in London at the time has cast doubt on “facts” that every schoolchild has learned for decades: that the epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats.

Now evidence taken from the human remains found in Charterhouse Square, to the north of the City of London, during excavations carried out as part of the construction of the Crossrail train line, have suggested a different cause: only an airborne infection could have spread so fast and killed so quickly.

The Black Death arrived in Britain from central Asia in the autumn of 1348 and by late spring the following year it had killed six out of every 10 people in London. Such a rate of destruction would kill five million now. By extracting the DNA of the disease bacterium, Yersinia pestis, from the largest teeth in some of the skulls retrieved from the square, the scientists were able to compare the strain of bubonic plague preserved there with that which was recently responsible for killing 60 people in Madagascar. To their surprise, the 14th-century strain, the cause of the most lethal catastrophe in recorded history, was no more virulent than today’s disease. The DNA codes were an almost perfect match.

Read More http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/29/black-death-not-spread-rat-fleas-london-plague



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    • Michael

      Ever hear of the hanta virus? It is spread by mice. But it is conveyed by air when people inhale the dust of the feces or urine of mice. So, the rat fleas may have conveyed it to the rats in the first step; but then it was conveyed by the urine or feces of rats.

      In other words, this looks like a distinction without a difference.

      Michael

    • anonymoustache

      “Bubonic” is blood borne-
      “Pneumonic” is airborne.

      The Pneumonic version of the plague has a much higher fatality rate-
      that’s one reason why this is considered to be an outbreak of bubonic plague-
      less people died than if it had,in fact,been pneumonic.

      Death happens even to the best of us.

      Pursue peace with God through Christ-
      Death is a fact of this life…
      but it will not be so in the Eternal.

      “and God Himself shall wipe away every tear from their eyes…
      and death shall be no more-
      neither sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain,
      because the former things will have passed away.”
      -Revelation 21:4

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