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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.
"If you look at the way it spreads, it was spreading at a rate of around 30 miles in two to three days," says Duncan. "Bubonic plague moves at a pace of around 100 yards a year."
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The liquidization of internal organs that causes excruciating pain in Ebola victims matches the descriptions of historical autopsies on plague victims, which similarly describe internal organs being dissolved along with the appearance of a black liquid, according to the authors.
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Lovely! A bit of historical speculation, if true, bodes ill for us. Ebola is poised to explode among the population, despite the reassurances of the feds; a direct effect of their PC treatment of the threat.
It will be much worse then the Black Death. People were much healthier back then. Some of those Crusader armies actually walked to the Middle East.