 pokkets says: The story continues at the site. One of the dramatic results that was directly related to the deaths of large sectors of the population, was the shortage of laborers, which the land owners 'resented' (apparently now they were expected to pay laborers-sounds familiar.) The Roman Catholic Church was ineffectual against the plague. There are some who believe the black death allowed the Renaissance to develop I read somewhere, but I stand to be corrected, that the black plague is spread by the fleas that infest the marmot', a burrowing rodent found in Mongolia. Certainly in Africa the modern-day equivalent of the bubonic plague is HIV/AIDS. HIV is not spread by fleas tho. True, Skwirl I reckon you may have just invented a new name for HIV/AIDS infectors/carriers. No, rats don't carry HIV. I have posted a related clip about a specific gene that is found in people who are immune to the Bubonic Plague and, interestingly, to HIV. The clip is about a documentary about the work of Dr. Stephen O'Brien, from the National Institutes of Health. How about posting a link here so we don't have to search. Another interesting solution, during the plague, was to kill the rats, as they were the 'carriers.' When the rats were killed the fleas moved onto the people. The Great Fire of London, burned away a lot of the infested sites I couldn't post a link to neochontes clip, but it was something I didn't know so it needed a pop. just use the clipper link above the comment, it's a new clip. There are some good links here to other parts of the site. neochontes clip links a page beside these http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/clues.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_plague/interview.html The Black Death was bad ... but what about the Influenza Pandemic 1918-1919. My paternal grandmother died from this on Christmas Day 1918 after having given birth to a stillborn boy on Christmas Eve. My Dad was 2 when she died. "The pandemic of influenza in 1918-19 which swept over nearly every continent and island of the whole globe has been described as one of the great human catastrophies." http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza%20pan.htm My dad was born in 1912 and he refused to talk about that time period. He never revealed why but I expect it was because he lost many people as a child. I have very few living relatives on my paternal side. This was on the page but I clipped around it. The numbers indicate that there has been nothing as far reaching as the 1917 Spanish Flu by a long margin, what may have contributed, are battle conditions and the movement of troops and people globally, as a result of WW1. One of the reasons they're so worried about 'Bird Flu,' The possibility of a form of influenza that is both deadly, and can migrate. "There have been a dozen or so epidemics/pandemics documented in human history. Probably the earliest dates to the 11 century BC, and is reported in I Samuel 5:6 in the Torah. In 430 BC, The City of Athens lost one third of its people to the so-called Plague of Athens. The first pandemic is po... I believe the race of humanity is in for a more devastating plague than bird flu and aids combined. And when it spreads it will cover the globe in days or hours. I also believe it will be a man-made accidental release of a genetic experimental nature. |
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