The Plague~1348

[Megan81201]

Any interesting facts about the plague in 1348????

[Obiter]

Google The Black Death. I'm sure you will find plenty of info there.

[atalanta]

There is recent research to show that there were two different diseases known as the Black Death. One was plague, carried by the fleas of rats. The other may have been a version of Anthrax ( anthrax means "Black") There were certainly 2 different diseases, since Ireland and Iceland were both badly affected, but neither had rats. One disease killed barely half its victims, the other killed over 95 percent.The incubation times were different, too - one took only a few days to kill, the other only killed after as much as a month. There are some rather high-level scientific books on the subject - try to find the most up-to-date which will include the latest research.

[Peter Pedant]

yup 1348 of them
Megan - google black death facts and about ten sites will come up offering you various delectable items. I just cant be fagged to paste them myself.

sort of try to do your own homework

umm... started here in summer 1348 and came in Melcombe regis
which is a two-horse dorp now but was one of the largest ports then.if you

err... if you draw lines on the map of Europe around the south England labelled 1348 and somewhere mid France labelled 1347. I think Turkey is 1342 and represent the dates at which the Black Death hit the place on the map - they are called isochrones.

vincent price stars in a film about the Black Death

The odd think is that rats should get it first and come out of the sewers and die in th streets ( spooky ) but no account of the Black Death says this occurred.

In the plague pit in Charterhouse last year - they dug up some of the bones and found placue DNA in them ( showing it really was plague )

It killed so many lawyers (ha!) someone ( Bishop Bateman ) actually founded a college at Cambridge to repopulate the country with lawyers
Trinity Hall

At least a third of the country died

that's enough interesting facts - look for yourself

[Peter Pedant]

// Google The Black Death. I'm sure you will find plenty of info there. //

I did Obiter - there are.

I despair of the lack of ingenuity of young people

[tamborine]

Rats

[Nibble]

A plague on your houses for the answers :-P

[Peter Pedant]

Megz - I like the four ?s as if to suggest - how ridiculous - is there ONE interesting fact ?

Tambo - yeah rats but not all of them
Interestingly we hardly see plague now - spread by rattus rattus - the black rat and its leedol flea - xenopsylla cheopsis.

rattus norvegicus has now displaced the Black rat and the flea doesnt carry plague.

x cheopsis has to have black rat blood to complete its life cycle.
Nowegian rat blood will not do.

I mean how interesting is that ?

[Peter Pedant]

In 1792 - a chinese Mandarin wrote a poem on plague as he .... er ..... died of it.....

I mean wow ! spooky !

[tamborine]

I heard ebola was from rats but cant confirm on google?

[Sqad]

tambo....ebola......bats.

[Peter Pedant]

Hey do you remember that song

I'm not a rat or a bat or a cat... ?

Ebola is person to person ( now ) the index case probably ate " bush meat " in this case a fruit bat.

Hey sqaddie - didja know that fruit bats lack a popliteus muscle ?

[Peter Pedant]

J P sartre wrote a book on plague and called it .... La Peste
He wrote it in FRENCH !

cool huh ?

He ( JPS) used plague as a metaphor for the German Occupation

weird I mean

[Sqad]

PP.....No, I didn't think that they" kneeded "one.

[mushroom25]

//I'm not a rat or a bat or a cat...//

[Peter Pedant]

La peste was by Camus - I almost got it right