01-16-2010, 01:26 PM
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The Stat Guy
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Originally Posted by Raellus
At the risk of getting us OT, the Black Death of the mid-14th century was no "simple" disease. Most modern scholars believe it was actually two diseases, Bubonic Plague and, later, the much more deadly Pneumonic Plague. Some people have postulated that it was actually neither but instead a hemoragic fever of some sort, much like Ebola.
Furthermore, medieval folks had no idea what caused it, maving prevention and treatment alomst impossible.
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I vaguely remember seeing on one of the science or history channels that the "Black Death" may have been as many as five diseases with similar symptoms, including both bubonic and pneumonic plague.
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