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" Plague germs extracted from medieval corpses in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics.
The DNA of Yersinia pestis shows, in evolutionary terms, a highly successful germ to which the population of 14th-century Europe had no immune defences, according to a study published today in the British journal Nature."
Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century.
Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist from the University of Florence, said the discovery on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in the Venice lagoon supported the medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death.
"This is the first time that archaeology has succeeded in reconstructing the ritual of exorcism of a vampire," Mr Borrini said.
"This helps ... authenticate how the myth of vampires was born.
Originally posted by spoonbender
reply to post by Anusuia
back then
people lived in their own filth like swine
they didn't bath regularly either...
conditions were right for it...
my concern 2day
would be some thing engineered
in a lab by some unscrupulous arse
Originally posted by Anusuia
Originally posted by spoonbender
reply to post by Anusuia
back then
people lived in their own filth like swine
they didn't bath regularly either...
conditions were right for it...
my concern 2day
would be some thing engineered
in a lab by some unscrupulous arse
thats the point of my posting the article to show how they are woring on the original strain of black death to the point of digging up the graves of the corpes
And you wouldn't be the only one thinking that, H5N1 now that is an interesting virus, along with the E.coli outbreak in Europe back in the summer, allegedly mutated to cause maximum human fatalities.