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The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/black-death-may-not-have-been-spread-rats-after-al https://www.ga
by neom 3y ago
The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all:
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/black-death-may-not-have-been-spread-rats-after-al https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/black-death-may-not-have-b...
Papers: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2209816119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2209816119 and https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1715640115 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1715640115
- no_wizard 3y agoMy bet is rats were a vector, but not the only significant vector. Its extremely hard to trace all vectors for a disease with pinpoint levels of accuracy to say definitively that any one thing was the major cause. At least, this is what I've learned studying public health and how diseases spread thus far, anyway