A VERY interesting hypothosis on PLAGUE

[NorthernRaider]

Sorry folks nothing thrilling like recipes, knitting patterns what I had for din dins etc this morning, just boring drab possible threat analysis.

Archaeologists came across part of a mass grave in Farringdon Londonistan, it was a plague pit, they have recovered 25 sets of remains and tested them and their findings are both interesting.

Yup the poor bastards died of Y Pestis AKA Bubonic plague but their tests on the remains are apparently suggesting or pointing towards the fact it was NOT rat fleas spreading the disease, but rather it was passed in airborne form by people coughing and sneezing like when the flu gets transmitted.

""However, 25 skeletons recently unearthed in Clerkenwell, London, believed to be of plague victims, have cast doubt on this age-old theory and provided evidence that they deadly disease may have, in fact, been airborne. The DNA of the remains was compared to samples from an outbreak in Madagascar, in 2012, which killed 60 people. The scientists were shocked to discover that the two samples were an almost perfect match, meaning the 14th century plague was no more virulent than it is today.They believe that for such a disease to have spread so quickly and cause so much damage it must have been spread by coughs and sneezes, getting into the lungs of its already weak and malnourished victims.
Dr Tim Brooks from Public Health England in Porton Down where the research was carried out, told the Guardian: 'As an explanation [rat fleas] for the Black Death in its own right, it simply isn't good enough.
'It cannot spread fast enough from one household to the next to cause the huge number of cases that we saw during the Black Death epidemics.'

It means that rather than being a bubonic plague it was in fact pneumonic meaning it was spread from human to human, rather than by flea bites.""

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...where.html