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It's a little odd that the second paragraph of the article cites how rats "may have transmitted plague" and then links to an article titled "Maybe Rats Aren't t
by calciphus 8y ago
It's a little odd that the second paragraph of the article cites how rats "may have transmitted plague" and then links to an article titled "Maybe Rats Aren't to Blame for the Black Death".
Why?
- imgabe 8y agoThe "common knowledge" is that rats (or their fleas) transmitted the plague. New research suggests this might not be the case.
- joecool1029 8y agoHere is a link to that research: http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115 http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115
- tomjakubowski 8y agoI think both phrases do a good enough job expressing the uncertainty of the rat's culpability in the black death: "X may have Y" and "maybe X didn't Y" are two sides of the same coin.