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> They forget when Europe was such a feces ridden hell hole that it incubated the Black Plague. For Yersinia pestis (the black death) public sanitation is not
by voidlogic 12y ago
> They forget when Europe was such a feces ridden hell hole that it incubated the Black Plague.
For Yersinia pestis (the black death) public sanitation is not a factor... Waste management also often wasn't as bad as people imagine today, the stories of the worst, not average sanitations are what are most commonly related about the past (why, shock value of course).
- xenadu02 12y agoYeah but we get the point - cholera was the appropriate disease to cite, many outbreaks caused when the sewage people dumped in the streets or rivers seeped into groundwater supplies and wells.