Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat
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Are Rats Responsible for the Black Plague?
Scientists say the worst plague years corresponded with wet springs followed by warm summers in Asia, which are terrible for the breeding of black rats. The excess Gerbil's hitched rides with merchants to far away lands covered in rodent fleas that might have hitched rides on rats. This scientists say is the actual reason why the disease came in waves again and again throughout the centuries. But it does beg the question of why did the fleas jump from the rats to the humans if there were still rats alive? That is the big question.
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