[Phsstpok]

Might the 10th plague have been some virulent infection with no possible cure?

Based on that possibility, do I really want scientists opening and messing around with an otherwise sealed tomb containing remnants from that event?

kinda like how I felt when scientists announced that they were trying to dig up victims of the Spanish Flu to "investigate" that little event. OK, just 18 to 20 million people died in 1918. No big deal. That was without jet travel. How much of the population of Egypt died in this little biomedical/Biblical event? You think maybe a person getting on a plane with the 10th plague of Egypt and changing planes in Atlanta might be an issue!

A little!

[blam]

"You think maybe a person getting on a plane with the 10th plague of Egypt and changing planes in Atlanta might be an issue! "

If you're alive today, you're immune to it. What-ever the plague was is still with us...we survived.

It's the new stuff that is mutating in Asia that you should worry about...Bird Flu's and such.

[hopespringseternal]

Might the 10th plague have been some virulent infection with no possible cure?

That only affects the firstborn? I mean, if you are going to throw out the main details of the story, why not throw out the whole thing?

[SunkenCiv]

That is one approach to understanding the 10th plague. Here's one such attempt:

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The Tragic End of the Bronze Age: A Virus Makes History by Tom Slattery

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I don't buy it at all, but I met the author online, and (though I think he's way off) he's a nice enough guy.

[Chani]

ooooo sounds like a wonderful movie plot...... or has it been done? ;)