My students responded okay to the Black Death material today (well this is just the first tutorial). I ended up going on an extended ramble about vectors and trade and comparing historical documents with scientific research and bioarchaeology and paleopathology lol
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but one of my students was like "oh well I'm not sure if they know where it came from" so I was like, okay well here is an excuse to ramble about it haha.
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I think there had been a recent study tracing it to marmots when I was reading up on it, I remember making the point that this does not mean there was a big influx of marmots into Europe, there would have to have been intermediary steps
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Oh I didn't know there was a gi one, I thought the 3rd type was septicaemic! God the argument I remember was all about the size of water droplets and the relative transmissibility of bacteria and viruses through breath, didn't seem quite so immediately significant at the time...
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I think septacaemic is related to the bubonic one, or it IS the bubonic one, if I remember what I have been reading. The GI version I think is a recent (as of 2014?) discovery.
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