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psychedoutcasts t1_j50pvwn wrote

I'll save you all some time. It spread from human to human quicker than it's capability of spreading from animal to human.

The reason for this is because people did not wash their ass. There are few civs that made it a point to bathe themselves regularly and the Europeans were not one of those civs. Thus the plague had a bigger impact on them.

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Maccabee2 t1_j51ayjs wrote

The notion of Europeans in the Middle Ages not washing themselves is an outdated one. Street sanitation, however, in many cities, encouraged vectors to multiply.

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