The Black Death | 2. origins & spread
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A New Kind of Flea?
According to this old story, the mongrols were marred by plague during military campaigns in the 13 forties. Gabriel de musy claims that while they were besieging the genoese runport city of kaffer, they catapulted plague ridden corpses into the city. But based on recent research by professor hannah barker, monica has a different take on events. The question is why all of a sudden were so many grain supplies contaminated with plague? What was moving it around? So is there just kind of a flurry of rodents? Are is there a new kind of flea that's involved in the transmission? We have absolute now information about that right now.
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