History of the Black Death - very interesting documentary

[Juliet]

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

the dangers of not washing your xaar properly

 

[Periplus]

Imagine people running around back then claiming they think the virus is fake and an excuse to stop getting people to watch Shakespeare at the local theatre.

Or maybe people today have just become smarter but with less common sense.

 

[4head]

the dangers of not washing your xaar properly

Millions of Muslims died from Black Death too and even in SS Africa

 

[Juliet]

Millions of Muslims died from Black Death too and even in SS Africa

No,not in SSA

 

[4head]

No,not in SSA

Studies suggest that it has spread in East Africa:

Did the second plague pandemic reach Sub-Saharan Africa?

History professor Gérard Chouin and other scholars will soon publish a group of four papers with new evidence supporting his hypothesis that the medieval bubonic plague epidemic spread to Sub-Saharan Africa.

www.wm.edu

One scholar working on manuscripts produced in Ethiopia during the 15th and 16th centuries discovered that Christian Ethiopians adopted two main saints associated with the plague in Europe — St. Sebastian and St. Roch. An archaeology colleague working in West Africa set out to review all the material accumulated by archaeologists since the 1960s and found tantalizing evidence of a demographic crisis in the 14th century, characterized by significant shifts in settlement patterns."

" Genetic evidence from East Africa shows particular strains of plague pathogens directly descended from a common ancestor that mutated soon after the Black Death occurrence. According to a third paper, this is highly suggestive of the disease spreading to Sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of the outbreak in the Mediterranean world. "
“And so it seems that these strains of plague which exist today are actually the closest to the ones that were recovered from 14th-century plague cemeteries in London,” Chouin said. “And this is an indication that the plague probably moved to Sub-Saharan Africa, where it found adequate rodent infrastructure for its survival in the eastern part of the continent.


While we actually lack sources for West Africa.

“In other places, like in West Africa where I work, there seem to be no modern pathogen descendants of past plagues, meaning that the pathogen was probably not able to find a suitable environment to reproduce itself. But in East Africa, it did.”

The article is fun to read.
Don't be too certain; Africa has a lot of sources but it did have History!