black death

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(27 July 2013, 18:59)bigpaul Wrote: not unless squirrels can swim, post SHTF there wont be any ships coming in or any planes coming here, so unless squirrels know how to make a raft their stuck the other side of the pond.

The animals in Europe could get here. Rabies is still endemic in Eastern Europe. SHTF, the Channel Tunnel is still open but not the systems in place to help prevent it happening as they have now.

Sure, we have not had rabies in Western Europe for a few years, because we practice preventative measures. With reduced interference in the wild environment, populations of animals will have more and more corridors through which to travel and different groups will more intermingle

I think there will be a bit of trading, once groups of people are settled to the point where they can produce enough to trade. This would also help to transmit plague amongst other things.

We do have lot less black rats now, and these acting as vector and host species to the disease when combined to our close proximity to them; indeed they many times had homes in what were our beds, in our thatched roofs and had the run of the place.

If animals are coming through the tunnel, so will people and the entire South of England will be over-ran. I fully expect any one or anything south of a line drawn from Liverpool to Hull will be eaten by those that can get through the tunnel or come over in a boat. The waves of people would be so great in number... well, lots of them would be coming, you know what I mean.