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The Mystery Of The Village That Beat The Black Death | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors | Chronicle
Chronicle ^ | 5/12/23

Posted on 12/17/2023 1:17:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5

The Black Death’s reign of terror lasted for more than 400 years. By culling up to 50% of the population of Europe, the Great Plague guaranteed its place in the history books. Yet while accounts of the Black Death have focused graphically on those who died, the stories of those who survived have gone untold. Until now.

The Riddle of the Plague Survivors focuses on those who walked away unaffected. Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease? How could anyone survive in the face of what is described as one of the most pathogenic bacterial agents known to humankind? This 60-minute documentary traces the work of American geneticist Steven O’Brien as he follows his hunch that genes are at the heart of this mystery.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Local News; Reference
KEYWORDS: 1665; ancientautopsies; blackdeath; disease; england; europe; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; iam; middleages; plague
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To: Eleutheria5
There's a Sean Bean (of Game of Thrones fame) movie covering a period in medieval England during which the plague ravaged surrounding areas while seemingly skipping one village for reasons later elaborated upon.
21 posted on 12/17/2023 4:19:08 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Openurmind; Nicolo
nicolo ~ I know a woman who is a direct descendant of one of these villages..., but she’s a freak job

Openurmind ~ They mined Lead

Metals protected her ancestors, and freak jobbed their decedents?

22 posted on 12/17/2023 4:23:53 PM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: Eleutheria5

It was the Jews and the handwashing and cleanliness that saved them.So much so that Jews were actually blamed for the plague,,,


23 posted on 12/17/2023 4:46:28 PM PST by Craftmore
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To: Eleutheria5

Less rats, less dogs, less cats,-—> less fleas, less Yersinia pestis .


24 posted on 12/17/2023 4:52:37 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Eleutheria5

Thanks for posting this great article!


25 posted on 12/17/2023 5:20:42 PM PST by matthew fuller (PEDOCRAT Cho Bye-Done, traitor forever.)
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To: nicollo

“It’s not the quarantining of villages that’s of interest, it’s the genetic resistance that led to fewer deaths within them.”

On both sides of our families, there have been, individuals not get Covid, while members in their same families/same home/household had some serious covid including fatalities.

No doctors nor so called health teams want to discuss these
realities.


26 posted on 12/17/2023 5:42:10 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Dead youth are Covid collateral damage. Covid Jabs were about reducing 65+ underfunded liabilities!)
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To: moovova

LOL. Fauci died, apparently.


27 posted on 12/17/2023 5:44:07 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Eleutheria5; Bon of Babble; Diana in Wisconsin
Thanks! Here is a related link to an Atlas Obscura article about Eyam;

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eyam-plague-village-museum

It has a nice series of pictures, including some English Cottage gardens and landscapes.


28 posted on 12/17/2023 6:21:15 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Lizavetta

If your ancestors are of European decent, that’s highly unlikely... If you’re of North American indigenous decent, or Australian indigenous decent you may have ancestors who avoided it... At some point, it likely existed in pretty much every other part of the known world.

Then again... Maybe you got a lucky (or unlucky) set of genes. I’d assume that you would likely be better of to have somebody in your genealogical past who actually survived it.


29 posted on 12/17/2023 9:21:31 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease?”

well, only if they figured out how to also “quarantine” the fleas and rats that infected their human co-inhabiters with the plague ...


30 posted on 12/17/2023 10:17:11 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: nutmeg

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31 posted on 12/17/2023 10:22:39 PM PST by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: nutmeg

Once upon a time ( circa World War 2) Arsenic was the remedy of choice for dysentery
….followed by a massive dose of vitamins

It worked!


32 posted on 12/17/2023 10:33:03 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Eleutheria5

Read later.


33 posted on 12/17/2023 10:58:48 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Eleutheria5

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34 posted on 12/18/2023 12:17:07 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: null and void

Lol...


35 posted on 12/18/2023 1:47:44 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Grampa Dave

Grandma survived the 1918 flu and the CoVid scam, got inoculated in spring 2022 and passed in September same year. While I think in general squirting anything immune system prodding into centenarians is just stupid, recommending the mRNA inoculation to a 104 year old is negligent, regardless of whether or not that contributed to her passing...

She lost mother, 2 siblings and grandfather in the 1918 outbreak. It currently is looking like a significant contributor to that episodes death toll was indication from doctors to take what is now considered to be insanely high doses of aspirin for its fever reducing properties. It was pretty new and its blood thinning effects were unknown.


36 posted on 12/18/2023 11:01:20 AM PST by Axenolith (MALITIIS HOMINUM EST OBVIANDUM)
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To: going hot

Actually, weren’t cats highly effective at keeping rodents down, but often considered “familiars” and of deviltry?


37 posted on 12/18/2023 11:03:56 AM PST by Axenolith (MALITIIS HOMINUM EST OBVIANDUM)
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To: jerod

“Then again, Maybe you got a lucky (or unlucky) set of genes. I’d assume that you would likely be better of to have somebody in your genealogical past who actually survived it.”

My Dad was drafted during WWI, and he was a druggist and was injured in a motorcycle training accident, back, shoulder and neck.

He was an orphan and was raised by his aunt and an older brother. His stay in the hospital was at the height of the 1918 flu. He had his nurses make an outdoor bed for him to get out of the hospital and get a lot of sunshine. He took minimal aspirin and a lot of liquids and gargled with Listerine.

His brother drove to the Army hospital, saw my Dad that day and the next morning, then he drove home. 3 days later he died from the 1918 flu. My Dad was discharged and disabled due to his motorcycle wreck and rode home in bus/ambulance.

His aunt, who helped raise him after his mother and a close aunt died in the early 1900’s, probably from a flu. She helped him to recover from the flu and motorcycle wreck.

No one in that Aunt’s family got the flu, nor did his brother’s wife and young children.


38 posted on 12/18/2023 12:09:14 PM PST by Grampa Dave (https://news.yahoo.com/worlds-most-powerful-militaries-2023-110100781.html)
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To: Axenolith

cats always got a bad rap!


39 posted on 12/18/2023 7:11:48 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: stanne

I’ve read a couple of places that the presence of horses repelled the fleas that carried the plague. If so, that would have been a plus on the Mongols’ side.


40 posted on 12/22/2023 6:18:16 AM PST by The Duke (Why do I think that the cynicism gene is going to be prevalent in future generations?)
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