Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat
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Pesticides - What Caused the Plague?
Pescatarians believed they were eating sick fish, but that was a myth. The plague jumped from black rats to humans through something as innocuous as sharing a flea. Even if the plague came from space, it still had to be transmitted from person to person once it crashed down to earth. And we now come to the actual organism responsible for spreading the disease.
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