Was the Black Death, the Mother of all Pandemics, Caused by a Comet, Not a Germ?

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The Black Death that killed as much as 50% of the population in Europe in 1348, is known as the world’s greatest pandemic from a pathogen. It is said to been caused by infected fleas from dead rats that migrated to humans. However, there are a number of problems with that theory. For example, the disease spread at a rate of about 1.5km per day (much faster than flees can travel) and would have left huge quantities of dead rats in its wake, for which there is no record. In addition, the human death rate was staggeringly high. Mike Baillie, Professor of Dendrochronology (the science of using tree rings to date environmental events) at Queen’s University, Belfast, determined that there was a major change in the global environment at the time. Antarctic ice-cores also confirm a dramatic rise in carbon dioxide gas at exactly the same time medieval writers were claiming the atmosphere was corrupted. In the run-up to the the Black Death, there was a series of terrifying natural events in the Orient including earthquakes, a fiery meteor, and tectonic movements that may have affected the atmosphere and air quality in Europe. The theory now emerges that the massive death rate may have been caused, not by germs, but toxic gases in the atmosphere. -GEG

Everyone knows the Black Death of 1348 was caused by fleas carried on rats. Infected fleas would leave the bodies of dead rats and migrate to a convenient human host. Then the human would be infected. Simple. Only the problems with this idea are mounting fast.

The disease spread at around 1.5km per day.

You therefore have to imagine rats literally racing across the countryside – and a trail of dead rats everywhere as they were struck down by the disease they carried. The kill rate, moreover, was staggeringly high, especially when the disease reached colder northern parts, since bubonic plague requires relatively warm temperatures. In China and India around 1900, outbreaks of bubonic plague killed only about 3% – not the 30% or even 50% recorded in Europe in the mid 14th century.

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3 years ago

The article gives some fairly good reasons to doubt the flea theory … but absolutely no reason to suspect a comet. Clearly someone needs to perform a great deal more research and concoct a much more sensible theory.

Marti Maurer
Marti Maurer
3 years ago

This comet theory MAY be true but who is to say that the rats were not immune to the disease they were carrying around??

Bobi
Bobi
3 years ago

 ‘at a rate of about 1.5km per day (much faster than flees can ‘. Flees travel on the huumans or their belongings. There is no life whatsoever outside the earth. Get used to it, no alien blaming.