HIST 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Pneumonic Plague, Rodent, Stellar Population
29 Nov 2018
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Dna analysis allows us to see these as waves of pathogen moving, relate the pandemics as waves of. Plague reservoirs: found endemically in certain rodent populations, if bitten by fleas could also get infected. Both rodents and humans contract initially from fleas, usually it is confined to rodents but casual. Many times, person infected would fall ill, die but unless they got the pneumonic form then other. Yellow breasted rats: in roofs and everywhere, as long as rats were alive and well fed the fleas would. 1) when humans go into the wild. 2) rat populations in homes, fleas look for new hosts. 12 th to 14 th century: killing up to 2/3 of regional population i that earlier stay period: described as killing up to 2/3 of regional population. Benedict: details in unan, cholera, dysentery, and typhus may also have been factors to have the 3 rd. More important: rise and increased activity within the opium trade.
