Is Ebola the Same Virus as the Black Death? Historical Similarities are Striking

American Thinker ^ | 10/14/2014 | Chriss Street

[rwfromkansas]

No, it’s not.

[hometoroost]

That’s racist.

[Tennessee Nana]

the outcome is similar..

certain death..

and both due to ignorance and stupidity ...

[BitWielder1]

It's not too cold in Scandinavia for fleas to survive indoors or under people's clothing.
It's not winter all the time either.

[Enlightened1]

Well one big difference that’s not even a debate. Our politicians allowed it to come into the country instead of containing it.

Now it’s starting to creep out. They can still stop it now, but they are refusing to do so. I guess they can’t let a good crisis go to waste?

How this is not criminal is beyond me?

[PGR88]

Its why I don’t think Ebola will be a grave concern for the USA. YES - we need common-sense steps (like banning travel from West Africa), but Ebola mostly finds a foothold where poverty, ignorance, stupidity, and superstition combine with corrupt government and lack of basic medical knowledge or scientific common sense i.e) west africa.

[rdl6989]

ping

[Obadiah]

Well, Obama did promise Americans shovel-ready jobs.

Keep the borders open, import more Ebola carriers, and start digging.

[forgotten man]

We have four of the five conditions you described here in the US now. We have plenty of ignorance, stupidity, superstition, and corrupt gubmint. The election and re-election of Barrack 0bola proves my point.

[Tennessee Nana]

you said it better than me..

there was no way Ebola could get here on its own..

our government invited it to “immigrate”

and then to get a green card...

[dinodino]

No, it’s not. Plague DNA has been sequenced.

[Brother Cracker]

[rwfromkansas]

They have found the bubonic plague virus in the plague pits using DNA. It was NOT ebola. Case closed. This article is just pure fantasy.

[RayChuang88]

Only one problem: scientists have actually exhumed the bodies of Black Death victims from much of Europe and determined the cause of death was the Yersinia pestis bacterium. It's not hard to figure out why: the sanitary conditions in Europe by the early 1340's made it very easy for the Y. pestis bacterium to spread in no time flat. And the not-improving sanitary conditions was why when cholera arrived in Europe in 1829, it spread very quickly and killed huge swaths of the local population until modern sewage systems were built across Europe to finally end the problem.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Well the only difference is back then they didn’t have a Kenyan Muslim hellbent on seeing it spread.

[Spartan79]

Ebola mostly finds a foothold where poverty, ignorance, stupidity, and superstition combine with corrupt government and lack of basic medical knowledge or scientific common sense i.e) west africa.

Sounds like most deep-blue urban precincts in the U.S., methinks.

[rdl6989]

Oh come now, let’s not let scientific and historical facts ruin a good story. :D

[Kartographer]

FR's own 'Dr. Nancy Snydermans' has discounted that theory already. You need to listen to her and stop worrying about 'Obola'.

[FredZarguna]

The symptoms of Plague are well described in historical accounts and bear no similarity to Ebola.

The authors of this piece are neither virologists nor microbiologists nor medical researchers. One is a demographer, the other a zoologist.

I don't say this because of a false credence in credentials, but because, if they were actually familiar with the literature they would know that the plague genome has been sequenced, and the symptoms accounted for long ago.

These are people who are simply trying to cash in on the current interest in Ebola.