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That's no surprise, they thought malaria ("Bad Air") was caused by humid, rank conditions, noticing that in windy, dry places Malaria seldom exhibited itself.

But it was WESTERN Science that trumped the old Middle-Eastern derived nonsense of the Middle Ages and, prior to that, the doctors of Ancient Egypt (via the Greeks), and now Malaria is known to be mosquitoes and has all but disappeared from where Western Civilization holds sway.

I think this was Trump's fault, too.

anonymous says

The Black Death, which killed millions throughout Europe in a pandemic stretching from the 14th to 19th centuries

The first plague pandemic was in the 6th century, which is not that well known:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

anonymous says

human fleas

There was genetic experimentation in the dark ages? Are we talking like The Fly?

Blacks weren’t around at the time otherwise they would have been blamed too.

I used to live with black roomates, one of them took the trolley to work. One day he was sitting in the area of a dirty homeless dude(on the SD trolley!? I know!), and apparently dude gave him fleas. By the next day him and my other roomate, again both black, had bite marks all over their shins. Me... Never a single bite.

anonymous says

A total of 125,000 people died in those outbreaks

In what we consider relatively modern times, just 100 years ago the 1918 flu pandemic:

"lasted just 15 months but was the deadliest disease outbreak in human history, killing between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, according to the most widely cited analysis. An exact global number is unlikely ever to be determined, given the lack of suitable records in much of the world at that time. But it’s clear the pandemic killed more people in a year than AIDS has killed in 40 years, more than the bubonic plague killed in a century."

"The impact of the pandemic on the United States is sobering to contemplate: Some 670,000 Americans died."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Again, soap and water are the greatest drugs ever conceived.

You don't get rid of fleas with soap and water.
Cats/dogs fleas can move to humans when hungry. They can hide for months in a mattress, a carpet, or a crack in the hardwood, and then jump you.
In the middle ages there was probably not much you could do against them.