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TL;DR - Yersinia pestis -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis
by loxs 10y ago
TL;DR - Yersinia pestis -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis
- pjlegato 10y agoSo the story is that the Great Plague actually was bubonic plague, as had always been believed.
- hga 10y agoNot exactly always, some of the no doubt distorted by the passage of time reported symptoms don't align with what we know of at least more modern strains of the plague, e.g. stuff more like what's seen with modern hemorrhagic viruses. The official third and most recent pandemic started in 1855 in China and reached the US by the turn of the century, so we have much more solid reports of that strain's behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)#Third_pandemic:_19th_and_20th_centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)#Third_pandemi...