This month, three people in China were diagnosed with two different forms of plague. While the disease is not as serious an issue as it once was, it's also not entirely a thing of the past.
Next, a lump -- sometimes as small as pea, other times as big as an apple -- protruded from their skin. Then, as the disease spread throughout their body, they coughed up blood. Finally -- for many of them -- came death.That was how people hundreds of years ago described the Black Death, which began sweeping across Europe in the 14th century, killing up to 60% of the continent's population in one of the worst pandemics in human history.
DNA evidence extracted from the skeletons of medieval plague victims, and genetic analysis of the bacteria, suggest that the outbreak probably originated in central Asia, and moved east into China, and west into Europe via trade routes, said Black. Even if the second pandemic had come from China, the Zheng He theory isn't feasible -- as Black points out, if Zheng He's ship was carrying plague-infested rats, the whole crew would most likely be dead before they reached Africa.
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