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Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat

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The Black Plague - The Great Mortality by John Kelly

You can die within the day of the symptoms kicking in. It's like the movie 28 days later, but real. That's also what's fortunate about how fast it murders you is the fact that it has nowhere to live. And then the plague burns itself out really fast, but it just takes using a lot of humans as kindling. Yeah. So it's kind of obese. It's an over eatery in some ways in the bacteria. But before we get into the wise wares and hows of the black plague, let's acknowledge our sources for this four part series. Our main source for this series is the Great Mortality by John Kelly,. which is absolutely in my

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