34017TheNew Human Agenda: Invisible Armadas a.s.o.

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THE BLACK DEATH AS A HORRIFIC DEMONIC FORCE
BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL OR ANY COMPREHENSION.
THE REAL CULPRIT WAS THE MINUSCULE YERSINIA PESTIS BACTERIUM!
After famine, humanity's second great enemy were plagues and infectious diseases.
Bustling cities linked by ceaseless streams of rich merchants, officials and pilgrims were both
the bedrock of human civilization ànd an ideal breeding ground for pathogens. Consequently people lived their lives
in ancient Athens or medieval Florence knowing that they might fall ill and die next week, or that an epidemic or so
might suddenly erupt and destroy their entire family in one swoop? The most infamous of such outbreaks, the so-called Black Death,
began in the 1330s, somewhere in east or Central Asia, when the flea-dwelling bacterium Yersinia pestis started infecting humans bitten by the fleas. From there, riding on an army of rats and fleas, the plague quickly spread all over Asia, Europe & North Africa, taking less than 20 years to reach the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Between 75 million & 200 million people died - more than a quarter of the population of Eurasia. In England, 4 out of 10 people died, and the population dropped from a pre-plague high of 3.7 million people to a post -plague low of 2.2 million. The city of Florence lost 50,000 of its 100,000 inhabitants. The authorities were completely helpless in the face of this calamity! Except for organizing mass prayers & processions, they had no idea how to stop the spreading of the epidemic - let alone cure it. Until the modern era, humans blamed diseases on bad air, malicious demons & angry gods, & did not suspect the existence of bacteria & viruses! People readily believed in all kinds of angels & fairies, but they could nòt imagine that a tiny flea or a single drop of water might contain an entire armada of deadly predators. The Black Death was not a singular event, nor even the worst plague in history. More disastrous epidemics struck America, Australia
& the Pacific Islands following the arrival
of the first Europeans.
Unbeknown
to the explorers & settlers,
théy brought wìth them new infectious diseases
against which the natives had
no immunity.
Up to
90 % of the local
population died
as a result.
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