[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.

[rdl6989]

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

[ctdonath2]

The great tragedy of science: a beautiful theory slain by an ugly fact.