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Article: Medieval Black Death Was Not Bubonic Plague, Says Study.
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- April 12, 2002
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Byline: Pennsylvania State University
BUFFALO, N.Y., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Black Death of the 1300s was probably not the modern disease known as bubonic plague, according to a team of anthropologists studying on these 14th century epidemics.
"Although on the surface, they seem to have been similar, we are not convinced that the epidemic in the 14th century and the present day bubonic plague are the same," says Dr. James Wood, professor of anthropology and demography at Penn State. "Old descriptions of disease symptoms are usually too non-specific to be a reliable basis for diagnosis."
The researchers note that it was the symptom of ...