Re: Medieval diseases

[Donald Wagner <polearmed@att.net>]

Poster: Donald Wagner <polearmed@att.net>

David KUIJT wrote:
> 
> 
> I'll be interested to see why McNeill thinks the Justinian plague could
> have been bubonic plague.  South Asia is not the accepted home of bubonic
> plague; my impression is that it is a disease endemic (then and now) to
> the burrowing rodent population of Mongolia, not South Asia.  Bubonic
> plague has a similar (more modern)  home in the burrowing rodents of New
> Mexico.
> 
> Dafydd
> 
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