Pneumonic Plague in its secondary form as I recall.
Slightly different, faster and with person to person vector.
Andrew Fildes
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The TLR Compendium
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On 24/03/2014, at 1:48 PM, Moose wrote:
> We have all assumed, led by those who claimed to know, that the Black Death
> was bubonic plague, and spread by fleas on rats.
>
> Some folks (historical forensic epidemiologists?) have recently read all the
> contemporary accounts and concluded that
> the BD was NOT the plague. Onset and symptoms wrong and progress quite a bit
> too rapid.
>
> Last I noticed, they were unsure what it was, but suspecting a form of
> hemorrhagic fever.
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