When you read the descriptions of the sudden onset of the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu, the black faces and black lips of its victims, the sudden but steady transfer of the Spanish FLu from town to town (by touch, by physical proximity and by (airborne) close association during ship transport, train and camp associations .... It is the same spread and the same speed as the Black Death.
Yes. I know the ever-repeated theory that the Black Death was spread by fleas spread by rats from the ships and trade caravans coming from China and the Silk Trade across the MidEast. But I see no evidence contradicting the Black Death as a Spanish Influenza mutation.
The Spanish Lady influenza has been isolated in victims' remains, and it's flu. And Yersinia Pestis has been isolated in Black Death remains. So, no.
“Yes. I know the ever-repeated theory that the Black Death was spread by fleas spread by rats”
I always thought it was by bad Blow and unclean Hookers?
The Spanish flu was often spread by returning soldiers.
Currently something is being spread around by busloads of illegal kids being transported everywhere.