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Originally Posted by Orruar
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The symptoms don't match up at all beyond the vomiting/diarrhea/bleeding, which also match up with the symptoms of several hundred other diseases. The blackening of the extremities due to gangrene (where the black death got its name, duh) is not seen in ebola. The first and most obvious symptom involving what they called "tumours in the groin or armpits" is not seen in ebola. Are you one of those people who only have a passing interest in something, come up with some random unsupported hypothesis, and then believe that to be the truth in contradiction to pretty much every expert that has spent their lives working in that field? Sheer lunacy.
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You didn't read my link.
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Medieval descriptions of the Black Death sound like the hemorrhagic fever caused by an Ebola-like virus, the authors say. Such fever strikes fast and causes blood vessels to burst underneath the skin, bringing out welts, similar to what British medical texts from the Middle Ages describe as "God's tokens."
The liquidization of internal organs that causes excruciating pain in Ebola victims matches the descriptions of historical autopsies on plague victims, which similarly describe internal organs being dissolved along with the appearance of a black liquid, according to the authors.
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It's from this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Return-Black-D.../dp/0470090006 which I haven't read, only found from googling.
You also realize they don't say "it was ebola" and that there were multiple periods of plague which could have been different diseases right?
I'll give some more links for you not to read:
http://www.rense.com/general12/bub.htm
http://www.livescience.com/15937-bla...ue-debate.html
Strange to think that scientists are challenging long-held beliefs huh? That never happens.