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ThorFinn_56 t1_j50otqk wrote

Reply to comment by brownie81 in The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all by Rear-gunner

Apparently it was the other way around. It was spread from the east to the west via human contact and regionally rooted and spread via rats in the short term

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War_Hymn t1_j51niou wrote

Either way, the main culprit here is the flea.

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One_Hand_Smith t1_j515i47 wrote

Iirc wasn't it from trade ships coming and going from Asia to one of the prominent city states in italy?

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AmandatheMagnificent t1_j545owk wrote

When I was in grad school, I wrote a paper theorizing that it was spread via the Mongolian version of the Pony Express as they traveled across Asia and along the Silk Routes. I also put more stock into coughing/sneezing as main infection pathways. Like this paper contains a lot of theories I had as a young 22 year old baby nerd.

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