[SunkenCiv]

Tooth from Jerash

University of South Florida

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis

[Afterguard]

“Yersinia pestis was also responsible for causing the infamous Black Death”

This is in error - should read: “Yersinia pestis was also responsible for causing Democrats”

[Thapsus_epiphany]

Best book about the plague;

A Distant Mirror, The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Author Barbara Tuchman, circa 1978 or 1979.

Extremely well researched, she also wrote The Guns of August, circa 1961, about the origins of World War One.

[nwrep]

They buried the lede. The disease vector originated in China.

[nagant]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis

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Y. pestis is a facultative anaerobic parasitic bacterium that can infect humans primarily via its host the Oriental rat flea
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The Holy Roman empire was composed of grain farming communes. As with all grain farming communes HRE had rats in abundance.