What affects us affects cats
The Black Death — the mid-14th-century pandemic that killed perhaps 30–60 % of Europe’s population — is among the most devastating tragedies in human history. For decades, popular memory and many historical accounts depicted it as a tale of black rats, fleas, and filth: rats infested medieval towns, fleas carrying the plague bacterium jumped …
For many years, as long as I can remember, there have been numerous articles online about the Black Death and how it was spread in mediaeval Europe. There have been myths and inaccuracies and I for one have been responsible for some inaccuracies. However, it seems that gradually we are better understanding one of …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The Mail Online has a sensationalist headline as per my headline in which they add that “officials rushed to contain virus”. Rare and normally hard to spread It sounds as if Oregan is about to be swamped by a bubonic plague epidemic but it’s not. Bubonic plague is very rare in …
