Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat
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How Did the Black Death Come to Kaffa?
By 1346, the news of the plague had reached the aforementioned port city of Kaffa. The Black Death comes from fleas hopping from rodents to humans. Rodents love war because it produces food from both ends: grain and meat-fed to living armies; garbage they produce to bodies riding on battlefield.
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