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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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didnt it pop its head up a few years back with a few isolated cases in Asia somewhere ? I was led to belive that the diesease still lives on in vermin in Central Asia.