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i also wonder if muslim countries suffered significantly less from the plague. edit: according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurre
by stefs 11y ago
i also wonder if muslim countries suffered significantly less from the plague.
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according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurrence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurrence), that's not the case:
> The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world.[91] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850.[92] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30 to 50 thousand inhabitants to it in 1620–21, and again in 1654–57, 1665, 1691, and 1740–42.[93] Plague remained a major event in Ottoman society until the second quarter of the 19th century. Between 1701 and 1750, thirty-seven larger and smaller epidemics were recorded in Constantinople, and an additional thirty-one between 1751 and 1800.[94] Baghdad has suffered severely from visitations of the plague, and sometimes two-thirds of its population has been wiped out.[95]
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- rprospero 11y agoI remember reading about a village that actually brought in large numbers of cats to deal with their rat problem, believing that the rats were spreading the plague. The cats did a fairly successful job of killing the rats off and, as a result, they had a huge plague outbreak. The scholars at the time concluded that the rats and the plague were unrelated. With the benefit of hindsight, we know that the plague is spread by Yersinia Pestis, which is carried by rats and transmitted to humans through fleas. The fleas generally prefer the taste of rat blood and only bite humans when they get really hungry. Of course, when a bunch of cats kill the rats, they have to make do with what's available and the fleas start going after people, vomiting the bacteria trapped within their gut into the human blood stream, spreading the plague.