Bubonic Plague has been on the high desert plains for probably over 100 years. Some researchers don't believe it's the same strain as the Black Death of Europe in the 14th C. Lots of gophers carry it too.
Maybe we should ship some gophers south of the border.
That only proved that people had bubonic plague, not that it was the cause of the black death.
You should read that research. Black death seems to be the same thing that caused the contagion in Athens during the Spartan siege. Symptoms are not the same as plague at all. 21 day incubation period not the same. Transmission not the same.
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There exist other theories and very good reasons to doubt it was the plague.
Symptoms, incubation period, and transmission was NOT like plague.
Humans in the old world dealt with the plague for thousands of years before the black death. It's still around today. Black death was more likely something very different.
In particular: incubation period for plague is a few days; incubation period for black death is well proven via parish records and historical accounts to be 21 days.
The black death literally turned your insides into black goo you projectile vomited. Buboles were all over your body. The descriptions of the suffering are easily found and they have nothing in common with plague other than buboles, but plague buboles are just in the areas the victim was bitten.
The plague theory does not meet basic standards of parsimony. You have to assume all kinds of special cases and exceptions to make it fit.
