Gerbils responsible for the Black Death ?

[Wade]

Gerbils, Not Rats, Spread The Black Death - Forbes

Rats Blamed For Bubonic Plague, But Gerbils May Be The Real Villains : NPR

 

[manxman]

That will be about right Wade below, from my history lessons.

Arriving fresh i mean, with this being a small island and quarantined, plague simply run out of victims.


Previously it was thought that the bacterium arrived once, and stayed for four centuries, surviving in a rat reservoir between human epidemics.

As the authors of the latest article put it in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences “This association strongly suggests that the bacterium was [continually] re-imported into Europe during the second plague pandemic, and offers an alternative explanation to putative European rodent reservoirs for how the disease could have persisted in Europe for so long.”

See weve had several unknown mass plague graves dug up recently around the outskirts of a rapidly expanding main town, it was black long tails here that it arrived in port with, there was never many survivors, all the work of the day was in the dock, merchant or fishing, it decimated the whole population many times, as they lived close by in very cramped conditions, some of the old streets still survive, they re not wide enough to drive a car down, just wide enough to push barrows in.