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Article: Tracing the plague.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 13, 2006
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* It was only a passing remark, but Joyce Rezendez falsified history in writing that "the returning Crusaders brought back the plague" ("The gentle art of Fra Angelico," NCR, Dec. 16). The progress of the Black Death has been reliably traced month after month by its first appearance in each city. It reached Crimea and Black Sea ports from central Asia in 1346, then traveled by rat-borne fleas on merchant ships to Constantinople, Sicily, Genoa, other Mediterranean ports, and then inland through 1349. This ...