https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eyam-plague-village-museum
It has a nice series of pictures, including some English Cottage gardens and landscapes.
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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Openurmind ~ They mined Lead
Metals protected her ancestors, and freak jobbed their decedents?
It was the Jews and the handwashing and cleanliness that saved them.So much so that Jews were actually blamed for the plague,,,
Less rats, less dogs, less cats,-—> less fleas, less Yersinia pestis .
Thanks for posting this great article!
“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.
LOL. Fauci died, apparently.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eyam-plague-village-museum
It has a nice series of pictures, including some English Cottage gardens and landscapes.
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.
“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 ...
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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!
Read later.
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Lol...
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.
Actually, weren’t cats highly effective at keeping rodents down, but often considered “familiars” and of deviltry?
“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.
cats always got a bad rap!
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.
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