Health Watch: So what really caused the black death?(Female Times)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: December 12, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: JOHN VON RADOWIZ

The Black Death plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 was the most violent epidemic ever recorded, killing more than 25 million people and cutting the population by a third.

Every school child was taught that the terrible scourge was caused by bubonic plague, a bacterial infection spread by fleas from rats to humans.

But two epidemiologists from Liverpool University say the history books have got it wrong. They have written a book, Biology of Plagues, which highlights a catalogue of flaws in the bubonic plague theory.

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