If the great plague was caused by rats, what makes you think it will not return?
2006-09-21 03:03:15 · 2 answers · asked by grossman 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Bubonic plague outbreaks still occur in many parts of the world. The plague was not spread by rats, it was spread by the fleas on the rats. This dread disease is treatable today with modern pharmaceuticals and a major rreason that it is not more prevalent in our world today is people practising better hygiene. During the middle ages when the plague wiped out half the population of Europe people were absolutely FILTHY, never bathing and living in squalor, a real invitation for flea infestation.
2006-09-21 03:17:10 · answer #1 · answered by muckrake 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are absolutely about due for a return of the plague in volatile form.
Crowded inner cities, fast intercity and international travel, large economic refugee poplations and the dreaded rats everywhere!!!
More likey than Avian Flu I would have to say!
Reported outbreaks in New York on a regular basis and large one in south of France , (Nice I believe), not too many years ago....
Glad I live in the middle east!!!
2006-09-21 03:29:23 · answer #2 · answered by Christine H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋