Marmots are a reservoir for the plague bacteria. Steppe people eat marmots. If under cooked the bacteria survive infecting the eater.
How come nobody ever goes out in public and catches something beneficial?
I believe there is a solid link
between GSM(Grand Solar Minimum)s and
major plagues that originate in China.
Something to do with the magnetosphere?
We know far more about such things now but
the population(density) is much larger so
who knows.
Watch and Pray.
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Interesting. Thanks!
For later
Looks like it took over a generation to get from (thailand?) before 1320 to NW Europe.
What an interesting paper, thanks for posting this.
Sounds like a good use of research funds.
But, but, but ACE-2 receptors.
The plague of Justinian’s era (believe to be bubonic & pneumonic) was much worse. Probably set the Middle East up for the Muslim invasions. its thought that the nascent Islamic Arab state centering around Mecca\Medina was off primary trade route trail and missed the full force of the plague. later they burst out of the desert and hit this empty sack of Roman & Sassanid Persian garrisons. The rest is history.
I always wondered why all nasty diseases originate in China.
I am a Bubonic Plague survivor. I contracted it from a defective batch of vaccine in 1970. I was hospitalized for 23 days. It is as bad as the stories tell.
I’d prefer to live in Relatively Unaffected.
Coming soon to a sidewalk in LA or San Fransicko.
Gossip and rumors about the Coronavirus are unsurprisingly spreading faster than the virus imo.
Consider that there was no electronic communication in the time of the Black Death (1347 to 1351). So speedy global warnings to lockdown and quarantine were unheard of and lots of people died as a consequence.
Insights welcome.
Proximity of a BSL-4 lab is the modern origin
We of European descent should demand reparations.
I want reparations for my British ancestors that suffered and died.
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Travel, travel, travel. What we take from this is the importance of restricting travel especially at the first sign of plague. China, where these plagues often originate because of an unwholesome diet, is the largest country and has the greatest number of people moving about relatively freely, thereby exposing the greatest number of other people to their unique regional contagious maladies, is always hit hardest. Europe, at least historically, has less exposure. And Africa least of all, because not even Africans travel in Africa (again I'm talking historically) unless they want to lose their heads. All of which proves Trump is right to want to restrict travel, and democrats are traitors to want to open it up.