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LightsoutSD t1_j4zthns wrote

Reply to comment by Rear-gunner in The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all by Rear-gunner

To spread so rapidly you’d think it would have to be from people coughing on each other, or drinking from the same ladle or something. Very odd.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j4zywnm wrote

Black Death travelled much faster than any spread of Yersinia pestis we know about not only that it spread much wider.

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LightsoutSD t1_j4zzk1d wrote

How does it compare to smallpox in that regard?

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j504kxv wrote

Not sure unlike plague. Smallpox was always there so it would be interesting to see a study of the America's after the Spanish came.maybe someone here can help us out?

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