Bubo? Booper? I think not.
Posted on 10/01/2014 6:26:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Controversial new research suggests that contrary to the history books, the "Black Death" that devastated medieval Europe was not the bubonic plague, but rather an Ebola-like virus.
History books have long taught the Black Death, which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages, was caused by bubonic plague, spread by infected fleas that lived on black rats. But new research in England suggests the killer was actually an Ebola-like virus transmitted directly from person to person.
The Black Death killed some 25 million Europeans in a devastating outbreak between 1347 and 1352, and then reappeared periodically for more than 300 years. Scholars had thought flea-infested rats living on ships brought the disease from China to Italy and then the rest of the continent.
But researchers Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott of the University of Liverpool say that the flea-borne bubonic plague could not have torn across Europe the way the Black Death did....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Bubo? Booper? I think not.
I was always taught to spit out the booper when eating a Beebo.
“new research suggests...”
famous catch-all phrase that allows one to say ANYTHING and get away with it! LOL!
Not likely, but it is possible that both Ebola, The 'Spanish' (1918) Flu, and the Black Death all caused cytokine storms in a large number of the victims, leading to similar symptoms and similar outcomes.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Who can trust anything coming out of UK universities since East Anglia is a proven fraud monger.
Rat fleas and dog fleas are quite host specific.
Cat fleas bite anything/one warm.
Buried history.
A former SEAL who became a history professor at UC Davis came to the same conclusion about 20 years ago. Historiographers started matching hospital and doctors logs of the time period against the conventional historical conclusions and it didn’t match up.
What the documents were showing indicated hemorrhagic fever symptoms rather than plague.
Also, the number of people dying in certain places, and hwo fast they seemed to do it indicated that it probably wasn’t plague.
He wasn’t suggesting plague didn’t happen. He was indicating that something like Ebola was happening around the same period.
No crossover at Rat Terriers?
Plagues are not mutually exclusive.
The middle ages also had a plague, mostly in England, called “The Dreaded Sweat”, that killed within a day of the first symptoms, and killed many thousands. Suspicions are that it was similar to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), caused by rodent droppings. This also may have decimated the Chinese military during the Korean War.
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/05/dreaded-sweat-other-medieval-epidemic
During that period they also suffered terribly from Dysentery, aka “The Bloody Flux”, Ergotism from contaminated grain, and several other diseases.
http://www.labelle.org/top_diseases.html
Read the old accounts.
The Buboes sometimes were bloody, and not all had them. There was also subdermial bleeding (look up pictures of Marburg victims), blood out of all the orifices, and many other symptoms not associated with Y. Pestis.
So while I (personally) think that much of it is explained by Y. Pestis, some of the symptoms suggest another disease.
Not saying it was Ebola. There are a number of hemorrhagic fevers.
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