Did rats really cause the Black Death?
Channel: MousetrapGenius
Date: 2017-02-12

In this video we go in search of the cause of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history: the Black Death, and what we find isn't quite what we'd thought! 

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For further reading:

Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/10/3020

Bubonic plague was a serial visitor in European Middle Ages: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubonic-plague-was-serial-visitor-european-middle-ages

The Black Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

Theories of the Black Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_the_Black_Death

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Yersinia Pestis: By Photo Credit=Content Providers= CDC/ Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Fvasconcellos.This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #1918.Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers.English | Slovenščina | +/−, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4036692

Plague Cyst: By Photo Credit:Content Providers(s): CDC - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #2047.Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers.English | Slovenščina | +/−Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6286382

Gerbil: By English Wikipedia user Rebroad, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=425595

Black Rat: By Kilessan - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9001055 

By Murray Foubister - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mfoubister/7975473194/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51852231

Dead Rat: By Pavel Ševela, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3709572 

Brown Rat: By AnemoneProjectors (talk) - Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)Uploaded by MaybeMaybeMaybe, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22811908

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