Recently there have been many headlines saying rats and fleas were not to blame for spreading the catastrophic Black Death that plagued Europe in the years 1348–50. But this is not necessarily true! Why has the information spread so prevalently? And what’s the difference between bubonic, pneumonic, and septicimic plague? Kim Horcher and Christina Ochoa (Scirens and Chaotic Awesome) discuss!

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