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The pope (Gregory IX) and Jesuit witches outlawed cats in the early 13th century(1200s). Cats had been killing the rats, which hosted the fleas, which in turn over populated and spread "The Black Plague" through traditional trade routs until, the "cats came back. Only the Aristocracy kept their cats through this ban as many more vulnerable cats and citizens where burned at the stake as witches.
Similar methods where used on the Native American people via Small Pox in blankets distributed to the masses by non other than, Catholic missionaries.
see also: historical accounts; Scores of children actually kidnapped by "the pied piper, from Hamelin, Germany.
Answer Rather than digest the lunacy presented above, it would be better to read the following link for a more level-headed treatise on the Black Plague, especially the part about the Black rat being replaced by the Brown Rat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death == == == ==
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∙ 12y agoThought the Black Death ended in the 14th century? Well it's back, but this time it's confined to a lab.
A recent report in Nature details the efforts of a team of German, Canadian and U.S. scientists to reconstruct the genetic sequence of the Black Plague. Between 1347 and 1351, the epidemic took between 30 and 50 million lives - up to half of Western Europe's population at the time - and today scientists are reexamining why.
A BBC story on the research describes how scientists were able to find a strain of the disease by extracting dried blood from the teeth of four 14th-century plague victims exhumed from a London graveyard. The microbe's DNA was in lousy shape, notes a Time magazine story, as it had blended with its hosts' genomes and the genes of bacteria degrading in the bodies for over 600 years. However, through a variety of new techniques, researchers isolated the "plague DNA," cleaned it and sequenced it. The feat is widely considered a major scientific achievement; The New York Times even called it a "technical tour de force."
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∙ 11y agoThe Black Death( or Bubonic Plague) where thought to have originated in China. Rats infested with fleas that carried the disease came back to Europe with the traders along the Silk Road. Then the Europeans, who never faced the disease and had no immunity too it, were infected. Various other factors including living conditions and lack of medicinal knowledge is what really made the Plague as big as it was.
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∙ 14y agoI think the black death comes from china but not 100% sure.
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∙ 13y agoMany rumored the Black Death was a punishment from God. Some say it was from rats(from diseases and such that they carry)
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What was the plague of medieval times?
The black plague
What is the original name for black death?
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
Is the black plague considered a virus or bateria?
The black death, or bubonic plague, was caused by a bacteria, thought to be Yersinia pestis.
What is a sentence about the Black Death plague?
Black Death Plague was pandemic during 1346 to 1353. It killed 75 to 200 million people.
Was the septicemic plague in the black death?
yes it was. and this form of the plague affected the blood and caued the skin to turn black hence the reason they called it the BLACK DEATH
How did the black death originate?
rats first transfred the plague to humans. form there it killed the most humans of any plague knon to man
Where did the plague originate?
China
What Was another name for bubonic plague?
Another name for the plague is the black death
Where did the plague of the fourteenth century originate?
Asia.
What did they call the black plague back then?
Black plague
What diseases did you get if you got the black plague?
the black plague
Is black plague infectious?
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
What specific disease was the plague in 1593-1594?
That fateful year saw the world's population enduring what is believed to be a recurrence of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or the Black Plague. It is further widely believed that the Black Death was responsible for the deaths of 38,000 Londoners that year.
What is the real common name for plague?
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
When did the bubonic plague originate?
during the medieval period of time
What was the plague of medieval times?
The black plague
What plague did Giogione die of?
The black plague. The plague was transferred by rats.
