🚀 go-pugleaf

pciszek@otherworld.std.com wrote:
> 
> In article <366549fe.8544757@vnntp.ma.ultranet.com>,
> Adam Kippes <adam.kippes@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> reeling from a population collapse in europe amounting to something like 4 out
> >> of 5 people, from the Plagues
> >
> >Eighty percent? No way... care to site some *credible* evidence?
> 
> I've heard it as two-thirds.  We of the late twentieth century have no idea
> what a REAL communicable disease is.
>

Actually, our grandparents knew it well - the Influenza epidemic of 1917,
which killed more worldwide than did the First World War.

For more on the Plague see:

http://www.labs.net/dmccormick/plague.htm


http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&q=%2B%22plague%22+%2B%22mortality%22+%2B%22europe%22

 
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