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Question: Do you think the black death [ plague ] return!?
I think that the black death will return because they are so many rats they are the ones that caused it !. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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It's never gone away!. Actually many people believe that HIV is the mutated form of the black plague!. also the Plague resurfaces every once in awhile in the Southwest!. Just the other week a biologist found a dead cougar that just had a bloody nose!. So he took it back to his house to see how it died and like a week later people found him dead and they realized the cougar had died from the plague and gave it to him!. Prairie Dogs out there are also spreading the plague along with rats!. And its a flea that causes it!. The rats and other rodents just carry the fleas!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The black plague is caused by Yersinia pestis!. These bacteria have always been around and are unlikely to ever be eradicated because they can live in animals such as rats!. For some reason, it stuck in my head that some prairie dogs in the southwestern US carry it!. People get infected every year!. That's the bad news!.

The good news is that thanks to modern sanitation, antibiotics, and understanding about how the disease is spread, it is absolutely possible to avoid another epidemic like the plagues that killed so many people in Europe!.

Edited to add: Here is a nice link for you to the CDC website on the subject: http://www!.cdc!.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/

Edited further to add: Anybody who thinks that the BACTERIA that cause black death mutated into the HIV VIRUS has no clue what they are talking about!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't think so!. We have enough "black deaths" in our days!. Aids, Sars, and so on!.

Did you know!?
Ring a ring of roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Atishoo, atishoo,
We all fall down!.

The first line of the rhyme depicts the round red rash that appeared on the victim's skin!. The sweet smelling posies were what people held to their noses to ward off infection!. Sneezing was an early symptom of the disease, and this was closely followed by 'falling down' or sudden death!.

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WRONG rats did not cause it their fleas did and yes it will come back it already has in a few places but like in history it disapears quickly and as always the cure still works so don't worry about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Re cister's reply: "Ring a ring of roses" does *not* refer to the plague!. This is just a silly story, which no folklorist would give this the time of day to!. Anybody who's interested, click on the link below!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There are still some cases around the world, e!.g!. in Madagascar!. But there's unlikely to be such an epidemic in Europe again because we have the means to cure it!. But like everything, there are some places that can't afford these cures :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

actually the fleas that were on the rats caused it but also the only known strain is in the center for disease control in atlanta so probably notWww@QuestionHome@Com

It was not the rats that caused the plague, but the fleas that lived on the rats!.

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indeed it will come back and it will probably start in India or some place near!.and this time the cure won't help very much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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no!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

nope and if it does i think we will find a cure (: Www@QuestionHome@Com