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Body Lice,<i>Yersinia pestis</i>Orientalis, and Black Death

28 Sept 2010

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A scientifi c debate with public health implications wages: What caused the medieval European plague epidemics known as Black Death? Recent articles note inconsistencies between a rat fl eaborne pandemic of Yersinia pestis (the bacterium that causes bubonic plague) and the documented characteristics of Black Death (1, among others). Ayyadurai et al. (2) acknowledge that a rat fl ea-only hypothesis does not fi t...

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PMID: 20875308
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100683

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