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Could it be that by the third plague more people developed immunity and therefore less were killed.
by idanman 9y ago
Could it be that by the third plague more people developed immunity and therefore less were killed.
- geezerjay 9y ago> more people developed immunity Better yet, those who survived prior plagues were more likely to already be immune to the disease, and evolutionary pressure led to a more resilient population against this type of disease.
- BorisVSchmid 9y agoPotentially, but I am a bit sceptical. Plague reached a lot of new territory during the third pandemic (for example, australia and the americas), while still having a low mortality. One could check whether native populations to those continents were especially hard hit compared to people from European descent. I haven't heard anything like that.